Motivational Quotes

World

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.

- Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about World

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

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

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

Buber, Martin

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

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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

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

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Brown, Rita Mae

11.

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

12.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

13.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

15.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

Rossetti, Christina

17.

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

18.

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

Evarts, William M.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Joyce, James

25.

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

Saunders

26.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

27.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Brome, Alexander

31.

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

32.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

33.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

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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Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

O'Sullivan, John Louis

43.

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

Aphorism, Zen

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

47.

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

48.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

49.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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