Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about World

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

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

Saunders

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Ferber, Edna

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

Devi, Sri Sarada

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

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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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 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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Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party.

Silver, Samuel M

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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 real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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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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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Brome, Alexander

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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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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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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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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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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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Aphorism, Zen

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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