#world

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#boundary #concerned #free #i #know

We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#best #came #department #did #finest

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#come #first #i #i think #new

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit." "We did say it was still only a dream." "And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#dreams #hally #life #life-lessons #life-sucks

In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference. ↗

— girl

#change #fantasy #reality #the-world #change

Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons? ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#between #buffy #child #demons #does

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. ↗

— Uri Geller

#anything #around #books #governments #i

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#any #best #chef #day #far

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that. ↗

— Ira Glass

#easy #exists #forget #hear #i