Motivational Quotes

World

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about World

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Buber, Martin

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. [Psalms 24:1]

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

Dunn, Stan

16.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

18.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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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

23.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

25.

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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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 American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Joyce, James

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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 is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Wordsworth, William

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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 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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The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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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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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 a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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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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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Traubel, Horace

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

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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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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Armour, Richard

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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