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

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

Aphorism, Zen

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

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

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

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Rossetti, Christina

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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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Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.

Thurber, James

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Brown, Rita Mae

15.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

17.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

18.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

19.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gaulle, Charles De

24.

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

Armour, Richard

25.

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

Villiers, George

26.

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

Dunn, Stan

27.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

28.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

30.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

32.

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

Saunders

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 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

41.

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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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

43.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

44.

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

Buber, Martin

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

Brome, Alexander

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel