Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about World

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

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

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

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 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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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.

21.

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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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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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

Traubel, Horace

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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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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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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.