In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. Oscar Wilde
In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay. Michael Eric Dyson
In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed. Marvin Hagler
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information. Ron Chernow
In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother's stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun. Sandra Cisneros
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.Charles Dickens
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. Jared Diamond
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. Willa Cather
It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am. Drew Brees
It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. Rebecca Harding Davis
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.Charles Dickens
It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun. Claudio Reyna
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.plato
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare Mark Twain
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. Aristotle
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. Helen keller
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson