Quotes with around-the-world

Quotes 2541 till 2560 of 3448.

  • Swami Brahmananda The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Paul Auster The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." ~ Paul Auster
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Henry Miller The world is the mirror of myself dying.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bob Barr The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Billy Sunday The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Henry Miller The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry Miller The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Hazlitt The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Bill Clinton The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
    at Rosa Parks funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Richard Cecil The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The world loves a spice of wickedness.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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