Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Evarts, William M.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Joyce, James

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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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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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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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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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Dunn, Stan

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Armour, Richard

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

Saunders

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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 American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Traubel, Horace

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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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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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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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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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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

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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 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