World Quotes - Page 686

It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War II in most of Europe wasn't a war; it was an occupation. The war was at the beginning and the end, except in Germany and the Soviet Union, and even there really only at the end. So the rest of time it's an occupation, which in some ways was experienced as an extension of the interwar period. World War II was simply an extreme form, in a whole new key, of the disruption of normal life that began in 1914.

Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.

And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.

Misery is the River of the World

Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'

While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.

Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

Once you become a vegan, the food of the world opens up to you.

Only pissed-off people change the world.

Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.

Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world.