All Quotes

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
‐‐ M. John Harrison

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
‐‐ Chris Moneymaker

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
‐‐ L.A. Reid

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

World history is a court of judgment.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World history is tragic.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
‐‐ Zadie Smith

World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
‐‐ Jeremy Gilley

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.
‐‐ Neal Schon

World records are only borrowed.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
‐‐ Kailash Satyarthi

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
‐‐ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke

World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
‐‐ Jim Webb

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.
‐‐ Graham Chapman

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
‐‐ Neil Sheehan

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
‐‐ Harry Browne

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
‐‐ Ken Follett

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

World War II proves there's no God.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
‐‐ David Ignatius

World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
‐‐ Lane Evans

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty grim and grisly. Audience members may feel like prisoners of war forced to watch a training-torture film.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
‐‐ David Ayer

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
‐‐ Gifford Pinchot

WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.
‐‐ Mitchell Baker

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
‐‐ George Eliot

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
‐‐ Dante Alighieri

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
‐‐ David Brainerd

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
‐‐ Robert Burton

WorldView-3 goes into the mid-infrared wavelength, allowing you to see very subtle geological differences on the sites at a 0.4-metre resolution.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.
‐‐ John Burnside

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.
‐‐ Elie Saab

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.
‐‐ Jonathan Nolan