Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

It’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

There are some loony people in this world!

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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

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

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

America is the greatest country in the world.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Theology is unnecessary.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Syllables govern the world.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.