World Quotes - page 81

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. (Paulo Coelho)
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games. View quote
Pelé
If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world. View quote
Pelé
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. View quote
Anthony Eden
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country. View quote
Clement Attlee
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country. View quote
Clement Attlee
The world order needs a major overhaul. View quote
George Soros
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. View quote
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols? View quote
Edward Whittemore
I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. View quote
Menachem Begin
If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus. View quote
Paul Krugman
What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. View quote
Paul Krugman
Many of the stories economists tell take the form of models-for whatever else they are, economic models are stories about how the world works. View quote
Paul Krugman
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world. View quote
Maria Montessori
Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we? View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. (Henry David Thoreau)
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. View quote
John Williams
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind. View quote
Eyvind Johnson