World Quotes - Page 480

I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.