Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about World

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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.

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

Evarts, William M.

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Traubel, Horace

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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

11.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

13.

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

Dunn, Stan

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

Villiers, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Armour, Richard

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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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 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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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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 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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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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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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

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

Aphorism, Zen

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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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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 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 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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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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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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To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Macleish, Archibald

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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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah