This World Quotes
3125 quotes by 1787 authors
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When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row…
— George Carlin
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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is…
— Hugh Miller
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This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this…
— Samuel Johnson
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While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real…
— Francois Jacob
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We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carefully thought out.…
— George Matthew Adams
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Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
— Dwight L. Moody
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,…
— Truman Capote
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Everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at.
— May Robson
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I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been…
— Rajneesh
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Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
— William Shakespeare
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My son, when you pray, do it like a person who is bidding farewell to this world, and don't assume you will have another chance…
— Muadh ibn Jabal
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How…
— Ibn Hazm
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Everything in this world happens for a reason yet nothing in this world comes free. Hard work, endurance, determination, persistence, and strong will are key,…
— Unknown Author
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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which…
— Al-Ghazali
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Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.
— Ibn Hazm
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O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world…
— Rabia Basri
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