World Quotes - Page 483

I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

The world order needs a major overhaul.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.