Quotes
Quotes about World
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. She is author of The Color Purple.
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs To load the May-wind's restless wings, When, from the orchard-row, he pours Its fragrance through our open doors; A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
