This World Quotes
3125 quotes by 1827 authors
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
— Aristotle
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of…
— Karen Armstrong
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
— Antonin Artaud
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You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
— Mary Kay Ash
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
— Saint Augustine
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This world's a bubble.
— Saint Augustine
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God…
— Teresa of Avila
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and…
— Kevin Bacon
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
— Roger Bacon
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I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist…
— Erykah Badu
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world,…
— Julianna Baggott
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
— Abu Bakr
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
— James A. Baldwin
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
— James A. Baldwin
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Lucille Ball
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment…
— Honore de Balzac
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
— Amelia Barr
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