OSCAR WILDE QUOTATIONS
ENGLISH QUOTATIONS
BRITISH QUOTATIONS
CARL WILLIAM BROWN
If you think the
United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center
in the world?
Richard M. Nixon
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to
enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a
finer spirit of hope and achievement. You
are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you
forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I
am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be
happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and
to the world.
Woodrow Wilson
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me
to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor Swift
We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national
community against all those of another. It is total... because it
may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult
thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put
you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The
civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious
reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the
secular readings of the world -
Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Chaim Potok
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover
that while public service improves the lives and the world around
you, its greatest reward is the enrichment
and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea'
that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an
honor to become a citizen here. It is a
gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.
People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the
people in the world need to be told what to
do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can
tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more
compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and
more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that
suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in
the world to which every man has a
more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the
limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits
of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the
masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief
periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's
rights and double one's duties.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely
terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of
accepting total responsibility for every part of
their life.
Brian Tracy
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with
whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the
intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone
ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present
fashions of it.
Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted
upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
There is little for the great part of the history of the world
except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Woodrow Wilson
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these,
but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them
out, let the consequences be what they may.
Woodrow Wilson
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems
right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim
high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone
at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you
can give.
E. O. Wilson
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world
henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together
the right information at the right
time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to
the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
If insects were to vanish, the
environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved
genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a
way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the
contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist
world views?
E. O. Wilson
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to
have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of
them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true
light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when
summoned away, to leave without regret.
Robert E. Lee
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really
have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were
destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not
only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the
dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made
any longer without taking into account not
only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into
account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed
during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the
living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over
the world.
Isaac Asimov
After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling,
investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great
power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with
the high responsibility of inspiring and
ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work
of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for
something - always, in a word, seeking.
Bodhidharma
People might not get
all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for
all they get.
Frederick Douglass
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this
world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can
be dealt with.
Michael Jackson
Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to
share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet.
It's what the whole world should do.
Michael Jackson
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything
is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your
shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take
yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the
only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years,
no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they
arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she
wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching
images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as
permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world
tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is
addicted to it.
Bill Cosby
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect.
The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he
is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The
great achievements of civilization have not come from government
bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory
under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't
revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Milton Friedman
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning
and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in
paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma Bombeck
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above
the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
Lewis Carroll
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who
want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm
does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and
selves.
T. S. Eliot
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not
forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no
wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This
can be traced back to the very beginning of
the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains,
new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they
fall into an animal stupor that gapes
at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is
putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt
cheap that one begins to wonder whether in
the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse
upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom
which has poisoned the world withering at the
roots.
Henry Miller
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the
American way of looking at things.
Henry Miller
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things,
literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich
treasures, beautiful souls and interesting
people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of
grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent
world in itself.
Henry Miller
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are
the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be
forces for good or forces for evil.
Henry Miller
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the
world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let
the idea soak in.
Henry Miller
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate.
It is for us to harmonize with this order.
Henry Miller
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up
and walks.
Henry Miller
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
Henry Miller
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and
preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief
would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of
the use of them.
Thomas Paine
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the
absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and
died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you."
Billy Graham
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They
turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned
right side up. The world has never been the
same.
Billy Graham
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as
adversity has.
Billy Graham
Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your
soul. Was it worth it?
Billy Graham
There have to be more important things going on in the world than my
past.
Charlie Sheen
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a
harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to
interpret it as though it had an underlying
truth.
Umberto Eco
For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties
and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but
I sure like the view.
Charlie Sheen
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of
artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans.
The line's always been really blurred
for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with
them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there
and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor Swift
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be
thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with
larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as
pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their
visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral
prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without
perspiring.
H. L. Mencken
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world
in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was
paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour,
that all wealth of the world was
originally purchased.
Adam Smith
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I can hear you, the
rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these
buildings down will hear all of us soon.
George W. Bush
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most
important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be
steadfast in support Israel against
terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all
Israelis pray.
George W. Bush
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed
across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the
oppressed, and delivering justice to the
violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the
outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a
way of becoming what I would so like to
be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the
world.
Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic
the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Aldous Huxley
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing
one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have
to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the
cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not,
neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the
whole world.
Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for
the whole world.
Immanuel Kant
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems
renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler
blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole
world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music
under my feet.
Thomas Merton
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -
and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold
infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral
Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that
half of the human race who hate what you
call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of
contradiction.
William Blake
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable
universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his
own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your
fellow man. For remember, you don't
live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in
diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the
misery which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the
world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought
and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on
something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world
history. If it is weak, it suffers world
history.
Albert Schweitzer
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is
always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the
trembling of a leaf.
Albert Schweitzer
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation
with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep,
and alive.
Albert Schweitzer
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not
understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were
born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to
resume discovering the world and
rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the
world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world
as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the
earth was not there as the peasant sees
it.
Gertrude Stein
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I
refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God.
I don't think anybody should be. No
one person can own the copyright to what God means.
Marilyn Manson
All I want to do is change the world.
W. Clement Stone
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a
butterfly.
Richard Bach
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as
you choose.
Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice
and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the
Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published
around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Richard Bach
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in
the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more
will reality and the world go forth
from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world
today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching
of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. Truman
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. Truman
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it
without leaving something behind.
George Washington Carver
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given
Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave
Him no name at all, He would still be
there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have
within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for
the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by
the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes
when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World
News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
Johnny Depp
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of
representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to
think about. It's really the first time I've
thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your
child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to
live.
Johnny Depp
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world,
and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without
further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall
never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon
steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the
most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world,
as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have
enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called
love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will
discover that for you the world is
transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and
learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on
earth can give you either the key or the door
to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world
in which we live.
Pope John Paul II
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the
quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had
to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing
for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be
inclined to raise those feet too swiftly
to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything
for us to do.
George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them,
make them.
George Bernard Shaw
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of
money.
George Bernard Shaw
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world
unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through
which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of
the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to
happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say
to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on
the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw
Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity,
we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a
second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of
thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live
that our death brings no pleasure on the
world.
John Steinbeck
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important
thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he
knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck
I love America more than any other country in this world, and,
exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her
perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
Henry Miller
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things,
literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich
treasures, beautiful souls and interesting
people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Jerome K. Jerome
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were
men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is
punished as such. A poor man is despised the
whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were
taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for
things themselves.
John Locke
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains
long in the same state.
John Locke
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the
world. It's so easy to get turned.
Elvis Presley
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made
for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the
overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Ambrose Bierce
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God
made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Ambrose Bierce
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about
us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Ambrose Bierce
I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the
world.
Angelina Jolie
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is
going.
Epictetus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
Epictetus
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render
mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is
the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people
won't feel insecure about you. We were
born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite
for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker
is not geared toward fighting the world
that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Marianne Williamson
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a
woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in
various places in between, given often enough
and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go,
so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will
save the world is ultimately a personal
one.
Marianne Williamson
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied
with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in
your heart.
Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to
the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of
illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and
our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send,
dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a
people.
Lord Byron
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas
nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his
work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50%
of their capacity, and stands on its
head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the
world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are
attempting to go around the world in balloons
are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft
cannot be tested.
Richard Branson
I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands
like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you
know, building their brands, whereas Virgin
is already well-known around the world.
Richard Branson
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out
whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
Richard Branson
Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to
be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was
younger. I just felt like a freak. I
guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want
to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make
their own space in the world.
Lady Gaga
When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something
that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you
wear something that doesn't come from your
spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm
really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans
would want me to.
Lady Gaga
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly
enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Mary Kay Ash
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
James Russell Lowell
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some
passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the
observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our
world.
Deepak Chopra
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India
because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw
materials for imagination are
inexhaustible here.
Deepak Chopra
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred
against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to
the wounding of the world.
Deepak Chopra
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single
lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and
easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for
and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in
the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
The world is independent of my will.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance
in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps
outside his or her specialty or foolishly
dissipates his or her individuality.
Og Mandino
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep
down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are
neutral.
Robert Orben
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil
world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing,
so are they challenging and filled with
opportunity.
Robert Kennedy
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and
age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give
love for a minute, for half an hour,
for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that,
I want to do that.
Princess Diana
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is
so intolerant of each other.
Princess Diana
I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the
spirit world looking after me.
Princess Diana
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened
responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free,
democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on
English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan
world, has become, through the preaching
of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and
don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another
goal, and don't quit until you reach it.
Never quit.
Bear Bryant
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a
miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at
a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is
indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and
humanity over error and oppression.
James Madison
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders
of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come
to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful
fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual
trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be
settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation
of the organization and our best hope
of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Thomas Aquinas
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by
what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion,
full of false paths, false values and
false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The
same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into
the soft ground and becomes swallowed up
by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in
peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his
past ways of life, with all those material
interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing.
Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin Powell
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my
heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of
nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world
is a much better place.
Colin Powell
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to
international relief efforts in the world.
Colin Powell
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in
which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will,
in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies
will pass into history.
George Orwell
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is
for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be
found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be
done by perfect men.
George Eliot
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of
the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know
no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life
to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the
spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs,
called possibilities.
George Eliot
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he
thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes,
it's the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who
begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of
the laugh.
Samuel Beckett
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a
happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to
wish for; and he that wants either of
them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be
a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far,
justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman
Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're
earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much
he was earning. I'm certainly not going to
tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and
often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years
ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this
world.
Robert Kennedy
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is
correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does
not mean that people were not in good
spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and
more important.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world.
Logic is transcendental.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all
over the world.
Euripides
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the
world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Mitt Romney
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What
makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the
American people: hardworking, innovative,
risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
Mitt Romney
The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of
the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we
can bring this country back. I'm Mitt
Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the
United States.
Mitt Romney
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the
frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on
Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge
of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the
evil empire.
Mitt Romney
We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility,
opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These
principles, these American principles are key to
getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores,
they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in
achievement among races can virtually
disappear.
Mitt Romney
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy.
He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the
past. I believe a strong America must
- and will - lead the future.
Mitt Romney
We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world.
Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state
is Arizona.
Mitt Romney
Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that
we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and
invest.
Mitt Romney
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful
countries in the world.
John Muir
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and
powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well,
or willingness to invest in enterprises
that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to
work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions
between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the
more so because these worlds are never
divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in
both.
Vaclav Havel
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The
artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little
peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's
really needed.
Vaclav Havel
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest
meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began
to lose its human dimension, and man
began to lose control of it.
Vaclav Havel
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the
human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and
human responsibility.
Vaclav Havel
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have
it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds
you.
Vaclav Havel
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for
each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who
are hardest to satisfy in all other
matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they
already have.
Rene Descartes
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy,
hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can
understand.
William Butler Yeats
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with
you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the
herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless
obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man
objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants,
sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting
anything.
Clarence Darrow
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the
other man's freedom.
Clarence Darrow
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to
be sought.
Dante Alighieri
I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't
wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
Whitney Houston
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that
the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an
opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian
fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
John D. Rockefeller
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight
million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is
very great and enjoins all that is divine
and enlightened in every land.
Morihei Ueshiba
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face
whatever the gods offer.
Morihei Ueshiba
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is
to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo
Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of
citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of
such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the
people I deeply love and admire.
Angelina Jolie
I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump
in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I
didn't know who I was. And things just get
really dark.
Angelina Jolie
I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker
for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a
place as I had hoped it would be for
me.
Angelina Jolie
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so
much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world
that nothing really compares to that.
Angelina Jolie
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the
wizarding world.
J. K. Rowling
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and
things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not
only love but every living force on which the continuation of all
life in the world depended, would dry up at
once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must
protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it
was when you came in.
James A. Baldwin
The world is governed by very different personages from what is
imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is
the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin Disraeli
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type
of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the
towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies
the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire
from the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into
politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man
refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James A. Baldwin
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the
world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and
effectively enough, you begin to do to
yourself.
James A. Baldwin
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born
is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his
talent.
James A. Baldwin
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person
that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is
impossible to be warned.
James A. Baldwin
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate
the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin
There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this
world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. Baldwin
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world,
not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital -
the world's best talents and greatest
ideas.
Jack Welch
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the
only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the
problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
Jack Welch
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I
do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out
into the world. And I believe in
taking care of each other.
Harvey Fierstein
The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.
Harvey Fierstein
The whole world is run on bluff.
Marcus Garvey
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole
world is my province until Africa is free.
Marcus Garvey
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For,
indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to
add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead
China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're
going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over
the world economically. And we're
spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing
the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get
oil from Libya, China does.
Donald Trump
I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world,
they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh,
there's too much oil.' They - they came back
yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil
production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our
friends.
Donald Trump
The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be
changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs
and we have to create them rapidly
because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction
that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.
Donald Trump
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with
and through people.
Earl Nightingale
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