Quotes with old-world

Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 3762.

  • Bruce Sterling War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bergen Evans Was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
    Source: Dictionary of Quotations
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Angelina Grimke We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Albert Camus We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Dave Barry We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Abdul Kalam We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Walter Lippmann We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ronald Laing We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Betty Parsons We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Woodrow Wilson We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Winston Churchill We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Laffer We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming We are here to make another world.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Alfred Eisenstaedt We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
    Alfred Eisenstaedt
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
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