Quotes with around-the-world

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 3448.

  • Robert Collier Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Billy Collins Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Ben Parr Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Emma Goldman Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Clinton Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
    First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Mary Kay Ash Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Shapiro Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Blaise Pascal Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bert McCracken Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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