I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'
~ Tom Hiddleston
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
~ James Buchan
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
~ Marco Rubio
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
~ Madeleine Albright
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
~ A. S. Byatt
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
~ Stephen Ambrose
Europe cannot survive another world war.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
~ Ryszard Kapuściński
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
~ Henry A. Wallace
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
~ John Boyd Orr
If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
~ Alexandra Paul
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
~ Ian Hart
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
~ Ernst Zundel
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
~ Bayard Rustin
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
~ Ramsey Clark
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
~ Cordell Hull
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
~ Gustav Mahler
It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
~ Hans Jonas
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
~ Charles Kettering
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
~ Eric Ries
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
~ Barack Obama
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
~ Mo Ibrahim
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
~ David Suzuki
It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel.
~ Justin Cartwright
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
~ Guy Kawasaki
All the world loves a good loser.
~ Kin Hubbard
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
~ Rahm Emanuel
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
~ Rupert Everett
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
~ Frederick William Robertson
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
~ Francis Picabia
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
~ Marilyn Monroe
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
~ Lucille Ball
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
~ Katharine Lee Bates
