This World Quotes

3125 quotes by 1787 authors

My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be… — Unknown Author
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what… — Robin McKinley
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go. — Randy Travis
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor… — Margaret Sanger
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as… — Edward Abbey
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why… — Laurence Sterne
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be,… — John Fowles
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
My God loves everybody, and if yours doesn't, that's your prerogative, but don't tell me how to live my life and don't tell my best… — Sophia Bush
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain… — Woody Guthrie
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and… — Henry Ward Beecher
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world — Og Mandino
I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's… — Frederick Forsyth
There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into… — Epicurus
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,… — Khalil Gibran
Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before. — Susan Jeffers
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock… — Alan Keyes
Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if… — Ronald Reagan

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