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World Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
- Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets…
- I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
- It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
- It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed…
- Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
- Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over…
- I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at…
- Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
- She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
- ..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things…
- When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to…
- He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
- Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
- ...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped…
- From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and…
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