World Back Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning…
— M. John Harrison
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I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
— Mary Stewart
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Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call…
— Thomas Berry
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The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back…
— Paul Polman
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Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to…
— Lawrence Anthony
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The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our…
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the…
— Lewis Mumford
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
— Franz Kafka
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It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the…
— Caryll Houselander
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If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning…
— Nikki Gemmell
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The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well…
— Sebastian Faulks
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The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and…
— John Green
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If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order…
— Isaac of Nineveh
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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that…
— Arthur Henderson
Who Wrote These World Back Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 World Back Quotes as follows: