Quotes
Quotes about World
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
This is the way the world ends
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
To see a world in a grain of sand,
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
