 |
 | "?Tis a very good world we live in, To spend, and to lend, and to
give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own, ?Tis the very worst
world what ever was known." | |
 |
J. Bromfield
|
|
| "A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding." | |
|
General Douglas MacArthur
|
|
| "A different world cannot be built by indifferent people." | |
|
Proverb
|
|
| "A man"s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should
survey the world." | |
|
George Santayana
|
|
| "A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth
glancing at." | |
|
Oscar Wilde
|
|
| "All the world"s a cage." | |
|
Heanne Philips
|
|
| "Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the
world." | |
|
|
|
| "Be in the world like a traveller, or like a passer on, and reckon
yourself as of the dead." | |
|
Prophet Muhammad
|
|
| "Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too
impossibly bad." | |
|
Honoré de Balzac
|
|
| "For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and
as full of untold novelties for him who has eyes to see them." | |
|
Thomas Henry Huxley
|
|
| "GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference
between the outside of the world and the inside." | |
|
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
|
|
| "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." | |
|
Sir Winston Churchill
|
|
| "Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice
thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell
phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn"t affect two-thirds of
the people of the world." | |
|
Jimmy Carter
|
|
| "He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without
others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without
him is still more mistaken." | |
|
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
|
|
| "I am a citizen of the world." | |
|
Diogenes the Cynic
|
|
| "I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically
on the reparation of our planet." | |
|
Steve Irwin
|
|
| "I couldn"t help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his
task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there
was a threat to this world from another planet. [We"d] find out once and
for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth
together." | |
|
Ronald Wilson Reagan
|
|
| "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth." | |
|
Umberto Eco
|
|
| "I wonder if there is anyone in the world who can really direct the
affairs of the world, or of his country, with any assurance of the result
his actions would have." | |
|
Montagu C. Norman
|
|
| "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side
saddle." | |
|
Rita Mae Brown
|
|
| "If the world were extremely seductive, that would be easy. If it
were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the
morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy
the world. That makes it hard to plan the day." | |
|
William Allen White
|
|
| "If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the
world safe for diversity." | |
|
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
|
|
| "If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we
shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their
lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger
peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the
world." | |
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
|
| "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will
answer you: I am here to live out loud." | |
|
Emile Zola
|
|
| "In the fight between you and the world, back the world." | |
|
Franz Kafka
|
|
| "It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost
insecurity." | |
|
Dag Hammarskjöld
|
|
| "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." | |
|
Henry David Thoreau
|
|
| "May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of
self-government." | |
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
|
| "Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies." | |
|
André Maurois
|
|
| "The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each
and every town or city." | |
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
|
| "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible." | |
|
Albert Einstein
|
|
| "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of
it." | |
|
John Locke
|
|
| "The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world
of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of
consciousness that exist." | |
|
William James
|
|
| "The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to
us." | |
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
| "The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot
read it." | |
|
Carlo Goldoni
|
|
| "The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it
was when you came in." | |
|
James Baldwin
|
|
| "The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily
selected for execution." | |
|
Sir Walter Raleigh
|
|
| "The world is everything that is the case." | |
|
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
|
|
| "This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper." | |
|
Thomas Stearns Eliot
|
|
| "Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the
fleet ... we may rightly call a New World ... a continent more densely
peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and,
in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us." | |
|
Amerigo Vespucci
|
|
| "Those who see worldly live as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in
everyday actions; they have not discovered that there are no everyday
actions outside of Dharma." | |
|
Dogen Zenji
|
|
| "To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could
he see you now, ask why?" | |
|
Wystan Hugh Auden
|
|
| "We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a
life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable
resources without regard for the future of our children and people all
around the world." | |
|
Margaret Mead
|
|
| "We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with
them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn
from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools
and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and
ships of war." | |
|
General Dwight David Eisenhower
|
|
| "We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world
as we find it, including the thorns." | |
|
Orison Swett Marden
|
|
| "When a resolute fellow steps up to that great bully, the world, and
takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find that the
beard comes off in his hand, that it was only tied on to scare away timid
adventurers." | |
|
Unknown
|
|
| "You affect the world by what you browse." | |
|
Tim Berners-Lee
|
|
| "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to
enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer
spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you
impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." | |
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
|
| "{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by
offering one"s talent, resources, and life to the world." | |
|
Lao Tzu
|