Quotes with old-world

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 3762.

  • Barbara Demick North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Angela Carter Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Salman Rushdie Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • John S. Bonnell Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Lao-Tzu Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Samuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Bill Ayers Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Charlie Chaplin Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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