World Quotes

Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

~ Jim Demint

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

~ James Hillman

I think there's something about a character facing the huge problems and challenges of the contemporary world and meeting them with - head on with courage, allowing for darkness and mistake, but ultimately always moral. That's incredibly, incredibly inspiring, and that's honestly what I think.

~ Paul Greengrass

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

~ James Allen

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

~ Jose Carreras

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

~ George Weinberg

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

~ Antonio Munoz Molina

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

~ Bob Schaffer

The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

~ Dan Coats

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

~ Rihanna

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

~ Socrates

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

~ Willem Dafoe

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

~ Louis C. K.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

~ Milton Friedman

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

~ Joseph Conrad

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

~ David Attenborough

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

~ James Dean

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

~ Jonah Hill

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

~ Drummond Money-Coutts

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

~ Ronald Reagan

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

~ Octavio Paz

Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.

~ Matthew Reilly

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

~ John Locke

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Michael Leunig

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.

~ David J. C. Mackay

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

~ Virginia Postrel

I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.

~ Miranda Kerr

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

~ Josh Billings

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

~ Bruce Lipton

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

~ Roger Ebert

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

~ Jessica Capshaw

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

~ Claire Danes

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

~ Andrew Weil