Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about World

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

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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

Armour, Richard

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.

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

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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 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

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

10.

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

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

13.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

14.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

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

Saunders

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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

19.

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

Cleaver, Beaver

20.

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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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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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

23.

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

Dunn, Stan

24.

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

Villiers, George

25.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

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

Buber, Martin

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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

30.

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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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

32.

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

Rossetti, Christina

33.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

34.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

35.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

41.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

43.

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

45.

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

Aphorism, Zen

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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?

49.

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