Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about World

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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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

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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 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

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

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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

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Joyce, James

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Buber, Martin

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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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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 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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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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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

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

Dunn, Stan

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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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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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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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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

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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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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

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

Traubel, Horace

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