This World Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Europe, World

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

  Dave Barry

  Perfect Days, World, Obsession

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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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• 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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• Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Joy, Sorrow, Bed

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.105, Chicago Review Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

  Kevin Smith

  Silly, People, 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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