Quotes
Quotes about World
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich. It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -I. Krishnamurti.
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
Weep not that the world changesâdid it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi.
The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity, Tempering her gifts, that seem so free, By time and place, Till not a woe the bleak world see, But finds her grace.
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world In me to lose.
