World Quotes

I want to show the world my humor.

~ Tracy Morgan

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

~ Roger Moore

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

~ Dick Cavett

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

~ Bob Newhart

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

~ Roxane Gay

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

~ Elizabeth Banks

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

~ Adam Mansbach

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

~ Joshua Foer

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

~ Bernard Williams

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

~ Samantha Shannon

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

~ Daryn Kagan

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

~ Doc Hastings

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

~ Richard Holbrooke

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

~ Lester B. Pearson

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

~ Herman Kahn

We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

~ Monica Crowley

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

~ Stephen Ambrose

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

~ Saul David

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

~ Hans Küng

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

~ Omar N. Bradley

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

~ Rand Paul

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

~ Thomas Hobbes

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

~ Julie Burchill

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

~ John Glenn

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

~ Adam Hochschild

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

~ Belva Lockwood

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.

~ Tom Brokaw

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

~ Amity Shlaes

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

~ Bonnie Bassler

When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

~ John F. Kennedy

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

~ Timothy Garton Ash

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

~ Warren Buffett

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

~ George Mcgovern