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World Quotes by Laurence Sterne
- To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
- Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of…
- I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why…
- To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or…
- Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
- That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way…
- Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
- There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
- The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.
- The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances,…
- Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
- When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
- There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
- Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace…
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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