Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about World

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Burroughs, William S.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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

Brome, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

10.

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.

11.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

29.

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

30.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

31.

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

32.

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

Evarts, William M.

33.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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.

41.

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

Villiers, George

42.

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

43.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

44.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

45.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

46.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

47.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

48.

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

Buber, Martin

49.

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

50.

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

Aphorism, Zen