World

Famous quotes containing the word world:

    “A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn’t enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

    “As to the thirty-six Senators who placed themselves on record against the principle of a World Court, I am inclined to think that if they ever get to Heaven they will be doing a great deal of apologizing for a very long time—that is if God is against war—and I think He is.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “Man, dreame no more of curious mysteries,
    As what was here before the world was made,
    The first Mans life, the state of Paradise,
    Where heaven is, or hell’s eternall shade,
    For Gods works are like him, all infinite;
    And curious search, but craftie sinnes delight.”
    —Fulke Greville (1554–1628)