Top 1200 Third World Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname Trey because I was the third.

If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.

The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.

I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Making money is my third or fourth most favorite thing in the world.

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin.

I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

The Vision 2030 is aimed at transforming Kenya from a struggling third-world economy into a second world economy - We do believe that it is a realizable objective; we don't believe that it is utopia. We know that it has been done in some.

In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

I have to tell you, our infrastructure, folks, is a mess. America is like a third-world country.

When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull market is typically a blow-off, whereas the mania runs wild and prices go parabolic... There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

The Democrats want to bring in the Third World because these are, by and large, people who have no experience with Constitutional democracy.

I was 22, and getting into a World Cup squad is what you dream about as a kid, so finishing third was fantastic.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

Obviously being third in the Formula 1 world championship would be crazy.

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before.

Let the Third World get some self-determination. Let the Nicaraguans make their own mistakes.

I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative is just as character-driven as first person narrative for me in terms of a voice. I don't write very much in third person.

In Europe, we have three tools when it comes to fair competition. One is antitrust, one is merger control, and the third is state aid control. And the third you don't have in the States.

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.

After having my third child and third C-section there's just parts of my tummy, no matter how many crunches I do, it's just not ever going to be the way that I was pre-pregnancy.

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.