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World Quotes by Lin Yutang
- Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
- Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe…
- There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a…
- India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as…
- There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
- So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing…
- The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but…
- There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
More World Quotes
- 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