World Quotes

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

~ Adam Schiff

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

~ Daniel Morgan

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

~ William Weld

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

~ Paul Auster

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

~ Jack Lew

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

~ Albert Pujols

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

~ Rolf Harris

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

~ Shannen Doherty

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

~ El Debarge

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

~ David Cone

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

~ Gillian Armstrong

The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.

~ Jack Ma

I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.

~ Christa B. Allen

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

~ Cher

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

~ H. G. Wells

I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

~ Ceelo Green

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

~ Jimmy Carl Black

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

~ Joanna Lumley

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

~ V. S. Naipaul

Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.

~ Conrad Anker

I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

~ Warren Bennis

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

~ Steven Pinker

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

~ Moby

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

~ Vivienne Westwood

My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

~ Floyd Mayweather

The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.

~ Natalie Massenet

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.

~ Novak Djokovic

I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity.

~ Tyler Cowen

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

~ Ken Follett

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

~ Dianne Feinstein

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

~ H. L. Mencken

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

~ America Ferrera

Fame is a funny thing. I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs. I like going to ball games. I like going to Disney World or a big field on the Fourth of July and having picnics with friends. The problem is you're either worried you're going to be recognized, or you're thankful you're not. It's always there.

~ Chris Evans

I've been blessed in that regard through and through. So I'm just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

~ Stephen Curry

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

~ Elayne Boosler

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

~ Rose Kennedy

I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.

~ Mackenzie Davis

My dog wants the entrepreneurial community to know how thankful she is for the fact that she gets to go out. She has heard more pitches than probably much of the world.

~ Heidi Roizen