World Quotes - Page 809

It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.

Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy.