Quotes About World

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.

I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

You can't control how things that you're involved with are received. But 'The Thick of It' wasn't intended as an instruction manual. Writers like hearing how bits of this stuff have got out into the world - but it was not meant to be a joyful celebration of the way these people behave.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

Other people need to be forward thinkers. Not just basketball players. Not just people in the sports world. But people in general.

People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.

My father is a geologist and he really thinks that scientists are going to save the world, so he wanted me to be one.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.