Quotes with old-world

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  • Joaquin Miller All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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  • Gore Vidal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Anna Jameson All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Lenny Bruce All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Billy Graham All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Buddy Holly All of my love - all of my kissin' You don't know what you've been a-missin' Oh boy - when you're with me - oh boy The world will see that you were meant for me
    The Chirping Crickets (1957)
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alexander Maclaren All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Patrick McCabe All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.
    Patrick McCabe
    Irish writer (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Bruce Cockburn All the diamonds in this world
    That mean anything to me
    Are conjured up
    by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea
    I ran aground in a harbor town
    Lost the taste for being free
    Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
    To carry me to sea...
    Salt,Sun and Time (1974) All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Maris All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Hogarth All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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  • William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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