World Quotes - Page 894

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

The funny thing about Facebook and Twitter is, you can go on there and see what's going on in the world without watching the news. I get so much news off of social media. I think it's cool. It's changed everything, not just music. It's changed the world. It definitely is a good thing. I don't really know what I think of it yet more than that. I haven't really sorted that out for myself.

I think more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch," Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.