The American World

It's a funny old world. - Margaret Thatcher

World records are only borrowed. - Unknown

The best of America drifts to Paris. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. - Ben Stein

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. - Virgil A Kraft

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism. - Fidel Castro

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell

Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world. - Martin Jacques

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. - Dag Hammarskjold

The world is passing away, losing its grip, the world is short of breath. - St. Augustine

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. - John Dewey

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins. - Rachel Klein

The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill

The only good thing about him is his cook. The world visits his dinners, not him. - Moliere

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. - Oscar Wilde

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. - Sir Walter Raleigh

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. - Robin Hobb

Women have a hard enough time in this world; telling them the truth would be too cruel. - H L Mencken

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. - H W Byles

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. - Robin Williams

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. - Francis P Church

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world. - Katy Perry

The plague fell upon the whole world.. not a single man in the whole Roman Empire could escape. - Procopius

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

If life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it. - Unknown

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. - Earl Nightingale

We can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world. - Angela Merkel

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services. - Stephen Covey

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent. - Dwight L. Moody

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world. - Abigail Washburn

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. - Unknown

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. - Marilyn Monroe

Science is not opposed to storytelling. Science is a genre of storytelling. Stories of the real world, inspired by observations thereof. - Sean Carroll