837 quotes found
“We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.”
“The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.”
“The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.”
“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”
“It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he ...”
“The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.”
“World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.”
“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”
“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”
“Georgina," He murmured, pulling me closer. "You are the world.”
“Brave old world.”
“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know', I said. 'Tomorrow.”
“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
“And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again. "Inaccessible." "Not," I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even--not even white birds.”
“The whole world, as we’re coming to understand, is quivering in its place.”
“This is the best world that we live in To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow or beg or to get a man's own It is the worst world that ever was known.”
“Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad.”
“The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.”
“The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn Morning's at seven The hillside's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world!”
“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.”
