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.
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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I've never felt like a pop star - this is a nine-to-five sort of gig. It comes from working in the factories, that world. You don't forget it.
I was more of a melodic player. Angus was more into the rock world. Straightaway, I said this is how we should do it. It was never a brotherly squabble but the opposite, because we just wanted to do good...
My brother John loved Big Bill Broonzy, and from that, Angus and I discovered Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. We could relate to what they were singing about. When a family uproots itself and moves to the other side of...
We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.
We could try and establish a world in which the great and the powerful adhere to that international law which they require ordinary mortals to adhere to. In other words, there is one international law, and even America and even...
It is ironic in today's world, but the core values, the protection of the law which we had thought to be universally accepted, has been seriously breached by the war on terrorism.
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?
I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.
No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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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.
