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World Quotes by Robertson Davies
- The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly…
- Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I…
- A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
- No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
- I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to…
- Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
- It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
- We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of…
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
- All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you…
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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