World Quotes

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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… — Chinua Achebe
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the… — Chinua Achebe
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack… — Margaret Atwood
There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever… — Kevyn Aucoin
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. — Jane Austen
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without… — Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the… — Jane Austen
There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round. — Paul Auster
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much… — Paul Auster
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we… — Paul Auster

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