World Quotes - Page 417

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.

The whole world may not understand me, but I don’t care.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety of reasons, I think a cosmopolitan spirit does naturally go with city life, that's the life of a very large proportion of human beings today. And I don't think rural people can't be cosmopolitan, in my sense.

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

The world is still very bigoted.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.