Motivational Quotes

World

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

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

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

Bible

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

Aphorism, Zen

12.

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

Dunn, Stan

13.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

14.

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

15.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

20.

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.

21.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

23.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

24.

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

25.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

27.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

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

Reagan, Ronald

29.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

32.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

34.

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

Saunders

35.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

36.

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

37.

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

Joyce, James

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

47.

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

Villiers, George

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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