Quotes with world-view

Quotes 2241 till 2260 of 3096.

• The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

  Peter Ackroyd
  English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.

  Alcee Hastings
  American politician (1936 - )
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• The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

  Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

  Barry Diller
  American businessman (1942 - )
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• The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

  Avicenna
  Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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• The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

  Dwight Whitney Morrow
   
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• The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

  Francis Picabia
  French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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• The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

  Ben Sweetland
  American psychologist and author
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• The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

  Percy Ross
  American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

  Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  British author (1859 - 1930)
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• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  Jacob Bronowski
  British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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• The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• mediocrities
• undertaking
• established
• impressions
• unconnected
• differently

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