Quotes with old-world

Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 3762.

  • Arthur Henderson The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • William McFee The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
    Book I: The Suburb
    William McFee
    American writer (1881 - 1966)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Margaret Mitchell The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • John Selden The world cannot be governed without juggling.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Basil O'Connor The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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  • Bianca Walkden The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
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  • Armistead Maupin The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Michel Faber The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
    Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Robert Fulghum The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
    Robert Fulghum
    American author and minister (1937 - )
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  • Richard Rorty The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Saunders The world does owe you a living, but it doesn't home deliver.
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  • Anne Rice The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Kin Hubbard The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Alva Myrdal The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Billy Idol The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Charles Kingsley The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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