Quotes about world

"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   

"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   

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

Dunne, Finley Peter on world   

"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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"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 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   

"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   

"The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on world   

"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   

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

Gaulle, Charles De on world   

"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   

"The world remains ever the same."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on world   

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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 on world   

"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   

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

Hemingway, Ernest on world   

"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   

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

Hubbard, Kin on world   

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

Johnson, Lyndon B. on world   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter on world   

"God had created the world in play."

Ramakrishna, Sri on world   

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

Reagan, Ronald on world   

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

Rossetti, Christina on world   

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

Saunders on world   

"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 on world   

"God owns heaven but He craves the earth."

Sexton, Anne on world   

"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   

"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   

"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."

Taylor, Sir Henry on world   

"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 on world