World Quotes - Page 725

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

So you go to Brookings, or you go to Heritage or others, they know their position on any subject before they research it. If you go to an investment bank, they know what parts of the world they are going to cover and what parts of the world they are not going to cover depending on client interest. We cover the world without being skewed by that. And that makes it more valuable.

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.