Motivational Quotes

World

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about World

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

Ehrenreich, Barbara

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Mumford, Lewis

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!

Cleaver, Beaver

A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

Miller, Henry

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

Vizinczey, Stephen

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras

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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Hardy, Thomas

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Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.

Thurber, James

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If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

Brown, Rita Mae

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When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself,am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Einstein, Albert

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We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

Daly, Mary

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Reagan, Ronald

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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

Fields, W. C.

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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.

Burroughs, William S.

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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. [Psalms 24:1]

Bible

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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.

Dunn, Stan

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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Rossetti, Christina

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People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

Aphorism, Zen

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Joyce, James

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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Evarts, William M.

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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

Einstein, Albert

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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Elton, Ben

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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

Villiers, George

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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Buber, Martin

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Fulghum, Robert

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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

Walpole, Horace