Best World S Quotations
115 World S quotes by 110 unique authors
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to…
— Anne Lamott
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But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our…
— Matthew Arnold
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Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was…
— David Levithan
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If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
— Huston Smith
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When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.…
— Julian Barnes
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
— Frederick Buechner
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Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
— William Shakespeare
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WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be…
— Paul Farmer
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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out…
— Frederick Buechner
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He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely…
— Milan Kundera
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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You should make her call you ‘Miss Georgina,’” added Hugh with a mocking southern drawl. “Or at least ‘ma’am.’” Niphon’s presence and Jerome’s lecture had…
— Richelle Mead
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Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief…
— Karen Marie Moning
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One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those…
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join.…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a…
— John Green
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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture,…
— Bell Hooks
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Um…” Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database…
— Ally Carter
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What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy…
— Libba Bray
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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…
— Fernando Pessoa
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At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between…
— Deepak Chopra
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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth…
— Dean Koontz
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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly…
— Fernando Pessoa
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110 authors contributed a total of 115 World S Quotes, led by these top contributors: