World Quotes - Page 676

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.

We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.