World Quotes · Page 1,903

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth…

— William Gaddis

Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do…

— Peter McWilliams

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of…

— Hermann Hesse

In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've…

— Barack Obama

With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at…

— Pope John Paul II

If you're a "good" teacher, somebody who is responsible or careful, teaching takes time. Teaching is performative. Students nowadays evaluate you and…

— Lynne Tillman

Ratings are king and the money keeps flowing, and partisanship is so strong today that people rely on a few sources absolutely…

— Garry Kasparov

Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of…

— Milan Kundera

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of…

— Edgar Meyer

We need people to be taught that they possess a hidden leader on the inside, and to reconnect to that leader, they…

— Myles Munroe

Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by…

— Satish Kumar

on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the…

— Marya Mannes

This is the world you live in when you're a football player, an athlete. You want someone to discipline you. You want…

— Herm Edwards

Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is…

— Silvio Scaglia

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France,…

— G. Edward Griffin

As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in…

— Robert Faurisson

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream,…

— E. O. Wilson

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my…

— AJ Tracey

So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been…

— Fred Thompson

When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is…

— Jim Lovell

[Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted…

— Barack Obama

Shall any of us repine that it is our lot to live in perilous and sacrificial days? Rather I say we are…

— Thomas W. Lamont

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a…

— Marshall Herskovitz

It's the same world, and only separated by what you physically see. Just because you do not see a male sex worker…

— Annie Lobert

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell…

— Benito Mussolini

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's…

— Santigold

I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding…

— Yair Lapid

I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they…

— Rumi

No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world - only…

— Timothy Treadwell

I would like the whole world to be full with authentic art, throbbing with it, living with it, because that is the…

— Rajneesh

Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world…

— Max Picard

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction…

— Frank B. Kellogg

Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals…

— Ry Cooder

After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat,…

— George W. Bush

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand…

— Alfred Noyes

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to…

— Frederick Buechner

The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works…

— Neil Turok

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to…

— Ilhan Omar