Motivational Quotes

World

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about World

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

Aphorism, Zen

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Armour, Richard

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

12.

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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The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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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There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.
There'll be fruit on the tree.
And a shore by the sea.
There'll be crumpets and tea without you.

Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you.
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain,
even that will remain without you.
I can do without you.

You, dear friend, who taught so well,
You can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.

They can still rule with land without you.
Windsor Castle will stand without you.
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you.

Loewe, Frederick

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

30.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Joyce, James

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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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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Camus, Albert

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Brome, Alexander

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The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Dunn, Stan

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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 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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Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

O'Sullivan, John Louis

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The world does owe you a living, but it doesn't home deliver.

Saunders

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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Macleish, Archibald

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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