Quotes with twenty-one

Quotes 4721 till 4740 of 5987.

  • 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)
    - +
     0
  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
    - +
     0
  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
    - +
     0
  • Martin Buber The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
    Martin Buber
    Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Swami Brahmananda The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
    - +
     0
  • Benedict Cumberbatch The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
    - +
     0
  • Camilla Belle The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • John Lennon The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Wendy Ward The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.
    Wendy Ward
    professional golfer (1973 - )
    - +
     0
  • Susan Sontag The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Anna Lindh The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Goddard The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man.
    - +
     0
  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
    - +
     0
  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Brustein Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
    - +
     0
  • Bobby McFerrin Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • B. W. Powe Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 2
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
    - +
     0
All twenty-one famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 237)