World Quotes - Page 990

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely, that we did not invent ourselves but find ourselves born into a life and a world that precedes us in manifold ways.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

At the moment we are hard-wired into the European markets - 50% of our exports go to Europe - and that has not been good for the UK. So I'm not saying "make Britain entirely dependent on China". I'm saying "let's diversify a bit". When I became chancellor, China was our ninth largest trading partner. This is the world's second biggest economy. China was doing more business with Belgium than it was with Britain.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.

The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.

When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.