This World Quotes - Page 30

• How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Names, Looks, Debt

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• You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Would Be, Needs

  "Warren Buffett’s big life lesson to students: Don’t borrow money like Donald Trump" by Tae Kim, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2018.

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• The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  World, Infinite, Plans

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• Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sea, Suffering, Comfort

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 207), 1895.

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• I do so hate to leave this world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Hate, World

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• Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Moving, Home, Unity

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Science of the Sacraments”

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• Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Hands, World, Poverty

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.355

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• Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Pain, Kindness, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 363), 1895.

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• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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• There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

  Nikolai Gogol

  People, World, Spots

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 5, 1842.

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• One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

  Agatha Christie

  Accompany Us, Self, World

  Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott (2014). “A Daughter’s a Daughter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

  Maude Royden

  Moon, America, People

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• In this world I probably know best. The person I like doesn't look at me but looks at someone else, smiles for someone else. I really know how you're feeling. And I can't truthfully be jealous either. I think if two people naturally like each other, it's almost like a miracle. Someday, will that miracle come true for me too?

  Hani

  Drama, Jealous, Thinking

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• The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, House, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• Don't leave this world without giving it your all.

  Tupac Shakur

  Giving, World

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• People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Loyalty, Dog, Kindness

  Kinky Friedman (2011). “Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Men, Evil, Heaven

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• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  Barack Obama

  America, Diversity, Long

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.

  Mooji

  Heart, Light, Mind

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• Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life!

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Heaven, Faithful, World

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• What this world needs is a few more Rednecks.

  Charlie Daniels

  Redneck, World, Needs

  "Song: What This World Needs Is a Few More Rednecks ("Simple man")". 1989.

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• If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

  Adrian Rogers

  Junk, World, Premature

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Mistake, Spring

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

  Horace Bushnell

  Pestilence, Taste, Principles

  Horace BUSHNELL (1849). “Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc”, p.14

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