World Quotes
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"Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. "
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
-Robert Frost
-Robert Frost
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
-Robert Frost
-Robert Frost
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."
-Henry Ford
-Henry Ford
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
-Herbert Spencer
-Herbert Spencer
"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do."
-Galileo Galilei
-Galileo Galilei
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world."
-William Cobbett
-William Cobbett
"Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate."
-John Muir
-John Muir
"It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel."
-David Leavitt
-David Leavitt
"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
-Robert Quillen
-Robert Quillen
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us."
-Max Depree
-Max Depree
"The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere."
-John Mortimer
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-John Mortimer
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