Quotes with world’s

Quotes 2081 till 2100 of 2906.

• The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

  Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5

  ― Benjamin Graham
  British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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• The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

  ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  ― Charles F. Kettering
  American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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• The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

  ― Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• 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)
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• The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  ― Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

  ― Ernest Hemingway
  American writer (1899 - 1961)
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• The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

  ― W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• mediocrities
• undertaking
• established
• reflection
• especially
• incredible

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