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World Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
- There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
- It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does…
- The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
- I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against…
- There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil…
- One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
- New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
- The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even…
- It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try…
- But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the…
- So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them…
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in…
- We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
- The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
- It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the…
- Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me,…
- Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
- There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...
- Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and…
- ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
- For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners,…
- A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- 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