This World Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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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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• If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

  Gertrude Atherton

  World, Ifs

  Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.78, Library of Alexandria

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• I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

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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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• Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence, and though the Realm of Permanence pervades this world of change, it cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

  Harold Percival

  Eye, Government, World

  Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.127, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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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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• Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

  African Spir

  Use, World, Individual

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Vanity, Two, People

  Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.214, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

  Tracy Morgan

  Children, Heart, Gold

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• I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little while and it's safe in that you are watching other people go through some troubles rather than yourself. It's there every night, and there is something special about that sort of terrestrial television experience for a mass audience.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Night, Thinking, People

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• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Change, World

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

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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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• Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

  George Herbert

  World, Wheels, Fortune

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given,
  That brought into this world a world of woe,
  Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery,
  Death's harbinger.

  John Milton

  Shadow, World, Woe

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.125

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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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• The thing I've done the best in this world is giving birth to Saet Byul. I can't imagine my world without her

  Kim Soo-hyun

  Giving, Done, World

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• I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

  Adam Carolla

  Sorry, Night, Giving

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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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• When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.

  Carrie Jacobs-Bond

  Helping Others, Long, People

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• We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

  Blanche Willis Howard

  World, Duty, Seaweed

  Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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