Quotes about world




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"The world is in your hands, now use it."

Collins, Phil on world
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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 on world    Share

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

Dunn, Stan on world    Share

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

Dunne, Finley Peter on world    Share

"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 on world
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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 on world    Share

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

Einstein, Albert on world
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"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 on world    Share

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

Fields, W. C. on world
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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 on world
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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 on world    Share

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

Gaulle, Charles De on world    Share

"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 on world    Share

"The world remains ever the same."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on world    Share

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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 on world    Share

"The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."

Hemingway, Ernest on world    Share

"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 on world    Share

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

Hubbard, Kin on world    Share

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

Johnson, Lyndon B. on world    Share

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

Johnson, Samuel on world    Share

"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 on world    Share

"Everything done in the world is done by hope."

Luther, Martin on world
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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 on world    Share

"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 on world    Share

"The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on world    Share

"God had created the world in play."

Ramakrishna, Sri on world    Share

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

Reagan, Ronald on world    Share

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

Rossetti, Christina on world    Share

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

Saunders on world    Share

"God owns heaven but He craves the earth."

Sexton, Anne on world    Share

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. His acts being seven ages."

Shakespeare, William on world
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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 on world    Share

"The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on world    Share

"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."

Taylor, Sir Henry on world    Share

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