#world

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing. ↗

— Inge de Bruijn

#because #doing #get #hard #hard work

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#art #athletics #failed #fine #fine art

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#attain #cop-out #easiest #goal #never

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#historic #power #worldwide #zenith

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#defines #democracy #does #extremist #first

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#comprehensible #embracing #through #world

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#god #i #i believe #i believe that #impossible

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small. ↗

— Zola Budd

#back #changed #few #fuss #happened

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#any #bullets #deficit #federal #followed