Quotes
Quotes about World
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls: He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl; Serenely full the epicure would say, "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.
Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.
The world is run by C students.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
