Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

Gladstone, William E.

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.

I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on the marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration.

Stedman, Captain J. G.

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

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

Aphorism, Zen

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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

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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 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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He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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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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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.

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

19.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

20.

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

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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 earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

Thoreau, Henry David

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

24.

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Truman, Harry S

25.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

26.

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

Dunn, Stan

27.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

28.

Loewe, Frederick

29.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Traubel, Horace

30.

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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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Tuchman, Barbara

36.

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

Joyce, James

37.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Seattle, Chief

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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

41.

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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Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

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Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

44.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

48.

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

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