World Quotes - Page 497

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

The world isn't ready for what I have to say.

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

I don't really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!