World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or...
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I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
I wanted to score the winning goal in the 90th minute of the World Cup final.
The best thing to do is to find the type of play to make Italy win the World Cup, and maybe Baggio be the best player.
It is the dream of all the children of the world to play in the World Cup final.
Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.
My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that...
I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds.
Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does...
It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.
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Sports also make an appearance, with a line about how money now decides world championships more than loyalty does. See also Best Quotes and Life Quotes.
