Quotes about world
world events natural
The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe. Robert Solow
world made persons
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
world weight headstone
The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again! Robert Southey
world corruption precaution
Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions. Robert Payne
world poetry-is response
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. Wallace Stevens
world
The word is the making of the world Wallace Stevens
world britons nationalism
The Britons are quite separated from all the world. Virgil
world-religions people important
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. Will Smith
world way strange
Its a strange world. Lets keep it that way. Warren Ellis
world needs wonderful
A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them. Warren Buffett
world united-states uncertain
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. Warren Buffett
world hobbies doe
Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours. Warren Buffett
world reason
The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up. Warren Buffett
world bookstores good-things
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world. Vincent Van Gogh
world good-things bookshops
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. Vincent Van Gogh
world triumph communism
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. Vladimir Lenin
world socialism claims
It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland. Vladimir Lenin
world sometimes stride
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. Vladimir Lenin
worldly
Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings Wayne Dyer
world philosopher nations
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. Walter Bagehot
world being-the-best certain
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. Walter Bagehot
world-government yield order
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace ... To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. Walter Cronkite
world might mrs-dalloway
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. Virginia Woolf
world delightful delightful-things
The world is crammed with delightful things Virginia Woolf
world mrs-dalloway raised
The world has raised its whip; where will it descend? Virginia Woolf
world fool genius
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. Virginia Woolf
world commit treachery
There was no treachery too base for the world to commit. Virginia Woolf
world tyranny connected
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other. Virginia Woolf
world comfort this-world
What a comfort is friendship in this world. Virginia Woolf
world mercy pity
Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release. William Blake
world pity mercy
Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release. William Blake
world ontology impossible
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however. Werner Heisenberg
world may watches
May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. Werner Herzog