World Quotes

57925 World quotes by 17139 unique authors

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine
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
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
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
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
There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round. — Paul Auster
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
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
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes… — Diane Ackerman
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in… — Diane Ackerman
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that… — Teresa of Avila
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God… — Teresa of Avila
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. — Dan Aykroyd
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was… — Dan Aykroyd
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a… — Sai Baba
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back… — Sai Baba
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through… — Sai Baba
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a… — Ibrahim Babangida
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the… — Irving Babbitt
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. — Joe Baca

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