#world

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#arms race #cherished #desire #every #every nation

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ↗

— Billy Graham

#comfort #enriched #much #never #prosperity

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#black and white #called #came #cinema #color

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. ↗

— Mark Twain

#comes #end #everything #i #later

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anyway #become #been #beginning #figured

It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it? ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#beautiful #falls #most #most beautiful #natural

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. ↗

— John Updike

#affair #applause #does #glory #private

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#blow #done #expert #itself #last

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world. ↗