World Quotes

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

~ Thomas Reed

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

~ Jim Henson

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

~ Charles Spurgeon

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

~ Henning Mankell

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

~ Bill Vaughan

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

~ Hrithik Roshan

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

~ Meir Kahane

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

~ Susan Sarandon

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

~ Nik Wallenda

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

~ Lisa Ling

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

~ Marvin Gaye

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

~ Xi Jinping

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

~ William Samuel Johnson

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

~ Townsend Harris

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

~ Neil Tennant

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

~ Theodore Bikel

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

~ Stanislav Grof

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

~ Václav Havel

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

~ Richard Flanagan

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

~ Roseanne Barr

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.

~ Herbie Hancock

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

~ Laurel Clark

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

~ Tracy Kidder

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

~ Donald G. Mitchell

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

~ Eisaku Sato

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

~ Jasmine Guinness

I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.

~ Nash Grier

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

~ Antony Beevor

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

~ Bill Frist

We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

~ Ice Cube

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

~ John Polkinghorne

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

~ Tom Stoppard

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

~ E. W. Howe

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

~ Richard Branson

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

~ Gabrielle Union