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World Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
- Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the…
- In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only…
- [B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
- It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
- The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though…
- An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into…
- He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and…
- But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained…
- The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging…
- In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
- It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how…
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach