Quotes with world

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  • Anne Grant Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alfonso X of Castile Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
    Original: Si hubiera estado presente en la Creación, habría dado algunas indicaciones útiles.
    Thomas Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great
    Alfonso X of Castile
    Spanish King of Castile and León (1221 - 1284)
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  • Carole King Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Bob Riley Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Butler Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Robert Frost Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Pat Barker Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
    Weg der geesten (1996) 60
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Alan Cohen Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Don Delillo Hardship makes the world obscure.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Billy Joel Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Brent Spiner Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • James Joyce He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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