This World Quotes - Page 10

• Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.

  Robert M

  Taken, Flower, Heart

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• If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.

  Tyler Perry

  Successful, People, Black

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 14, 2012.

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• This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

  Pete Seeger

  Hypocrisy, World, Way

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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• People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

  Robert Greene

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

  Cory Booker

  Fighting, Light, Battle

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• The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Knowledge, Men, Mind

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• There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

  Clint Eastwood

  Two, People, World

  "Clint Eastwood on Obama, the Death Penalty, and More" by Ton Junod, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2012.

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• I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you. He or she is worrying about whether you like him, not whether he likes you. He is worrying about whether he looks prepossessing, not whether you are dressed correctly. He is worrying about whether he appears poised, not whether you are. He is worrying about whether you think well of him, not whether he thinks well of you. The way to be yourself ... is to forget yourself.

  Jo Coudert

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Worry

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• Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (à courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?

  African Spir

  Selfish, Simple, Justice

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 55), 1937.

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• In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.

  African Spir

  World, Ideals, Eternal

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.

  Agnes Strickland

  Fun, World, Next

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• Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Hurt, World, Sometimes

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.445, eBookIt.com

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• Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Office, Heaven

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• It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.

  Luo Guanzhong

  Long, World, Truism

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• The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty,
  Even though this world is forever altering its values.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forever, Humanity, World

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• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Women, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

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• Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

  Bill Vaughan

  Remembrance, Deceit, World

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• I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

  Matt Bomer

  Growing Up, Artist, Past

  "Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

  Cornelia Parker

  Independent, World, Cry

  Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”

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• Just remembering that they [people with eating disorder] are young, beautiful and unique and that is worth everything in this world.

  Troian Bellisario

  Beautiful, Unique, World

  "Troian's Emotional Struggle". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'

  Erin Cummings

  Jobs, Home, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.

  Ernest Legouve

  Promise, Tears, Serious

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• A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

  E. W. Scripps

  Determination, Men, World

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• Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Blessed, Men, Average

  VANCE BOURJAILY (1967). “THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY”

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