Motivational Quotes

World

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.

Best Quotes about World

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Buber, Martin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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.

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

Saunders

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

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

10.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

11.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

12.

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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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

14.

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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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

16.

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

17.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

18.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

19.

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

Armour, Richard

20.

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

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Traubel, Horace

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Dunn, Stan

26.

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

Aphorism, Zen

27.

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

28.

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself,am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Villiers, George

35.

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

36.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

37.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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.

40.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

41.

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

42.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras

43.

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

44.

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

Cleaver, Beaver

45.

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

46.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

47.

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

Joyce, James

48.

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

Rossetti, Christina

49.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

50.

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.