Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about 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

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Evarts, William M.

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

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

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Aphorism, Zen

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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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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

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

Buber, Martin

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

Burroughs, William S.

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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Traubel, Horace

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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

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Joyce, James

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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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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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.