Quotes with old-world

Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 3762.

  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Guy Debord There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • John Keats There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Han Suyin There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
    Han Suyin
    Chinese-European writer (ps. by Elizabeth Comber) (1916 - 2012)
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  • Ben Affleck There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • John Galsworthy There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bliss Carman There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Peace Pilgrim There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Edward Sagan There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
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  • Bobby Fischer There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
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