This World Quotes
3125 This World quotes by 1787 unique authors
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There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there…
— Ben Fountain
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For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
— Thomas Malory
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If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient
— John Newman
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If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
— Simon Sinek
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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
— Ken Robinson
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Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world--and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil,…
— Ken Ham
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If we can’t get more John Rovnaks in this world, let’s all support the John Rovnak we’ve got…
— Unknown Author
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I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to…
— Roxane Gay
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to…
— Etty Hillesum
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Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.
— Lee Trevino
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As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone…
— Gautama Buddha
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There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only…
— Peter L. Berger
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Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve…
— Bill Hybels
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times…
— Giambattista Vico
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God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.
— Bill Hicks
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I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.
— Bill Hicks
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There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'…
— Jack Kerouac
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Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
— Leonard Michaels
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Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make…
— Thomas Ligotti
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This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.
— William Empson
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A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to)…
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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The laws of this world are for children.
— Frank Wedekind
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There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a…
— Lin Yutang
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