Quotes
Quotes about World
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.
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
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.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
One point of view gives a one dimensional world. (Liz Murray.. a brilliant homeless teen who got a scholarship to an Ivy League school).
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
