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

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself,am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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 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

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

Bible

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

Saunders

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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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 world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Dunn, Stan

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

Aphorism, Zen

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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

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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

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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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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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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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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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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Joyce, James

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

Traubel, Horace

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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 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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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.

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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

Villiers, George

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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