Quotes with world

  • Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
  • The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
  • That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
  • In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
  • A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
  • When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.
  • There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
  • Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
  • 't Is not too late to seek a newer world.
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  • Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore We live in the world when we love it.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • William Shakespeare Be patient,
    For the world is broad and wide.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oscar Wilde A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • James Allen Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Adam Weishaupt I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Bruce Lee I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Lydia M. Child A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Don Delillo Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Voltaire The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Lester C. Thurow A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
    Lester C. Thurow
    American economist (1938 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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