World Quotes
57925 quotes by 17139 authors
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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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
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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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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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
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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
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
— Jane Austen
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
— Jane Austen
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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
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There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
— Paul Auster
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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
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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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