Motivational Quotes

World

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.

Best Quotes about World

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Throop III, Kelvin

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Cleaver, Beaver

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Brome, Alexander

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Saunders

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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

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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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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People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Aphorism, Zen

35.

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 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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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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 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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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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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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Kennedy, John F.

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

Armour, Richard

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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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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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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