You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
~ Johnny Isakson
Politics disappears it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.
~ Sonia Gandhi
Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
~ Christie Brinkley
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~ Anaïs Nin
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
~ Haniel Long
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
~ Thiruvalluvar
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
~ Maria Shriver
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
~ Donald Trump
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
~ E. W. Howe
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
~ Kenneth Branagh
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
~ Debra Messing
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
~ Charles De Lint
I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
~ Jesse Ball
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
~ Mac Miller
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
~ Joseph Campbell
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
~ Richard Dawkins
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
~ Peter Ustinov
I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
~ Kapil Dev
I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.
~ Angelina Jolie
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.
~ Kate Hudson
I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
~ Yuna
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
~ William Shakespeare
At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
~ Yani Tseng
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.
~ Lynne Truss
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
~ Gore Vidal
The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.
~ Jason Isbell
It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
~ Damian Lewis
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
~ Henry Louis Gates
One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
~ John Mackey
If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.
~ Lydia Millet
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
~ Eliot Spitzer
