The American World

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

The world wants to be deceived. - Sebastian Brant

In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa

The best smell in the world is that man that you love. - Jennifer Aniston

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson

There cannot be a world crisis next week, my schedule is full. - Henry Kissinger

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yusafzai

This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better. - R.A. Campbell

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. - Unknown

What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? - Matthew 16:26

I have an existential map; it has "you are here" written all over it. - Steven Wright

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. - Mahatma Gandhi

Work for the Lord. The pay isn't much, but the retirement plan is out of this world. - Unknown

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. - Niccolo Machiavelli

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. - Frederick W. Cropp

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be: Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything. - Rachael Ray

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammad Ali

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. - Jon Bon Jovi

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

When one has reached eighty-one, one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it. - Sean O'Casey

Your belief in yourself and your company and your place in the world may be the main determination of your success. - Tom Butler-Bowdon

A free Negro of the African race is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the constitution of the United States. - Roger Taney

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. - Johnny Carson

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your existence itself is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus

A reputation, once damaged, may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. - Joseph Hall

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. - Richard Stallman

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive, and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. - Benjamin E. Mays

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line. - Ann Landers

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. - Samuel Johnson

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. - Lillian Smith