This World Quotes (page 50)

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• character
• world
• exactly is

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable. Theodore Dreiser

• great
• greatness
• world

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

• self
• future
• world

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. Henri Nouwen

• family
• world
• only

The only obligation I recognize in this world is my duty to my immediate family H. L. Mencken

• people
• free
• world

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it. Jimmy Buffett

• memories
• world
• bitter

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it Jodi Picoult

• wind
• world
• violated

In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim). Herman Melville

• true
• world
• affection

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• end
• watch
• learning

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all. H. G. Wells

• persistence
• world
• common

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Calvin Coolidge

• life
• personal
• hand

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor. William Styron

• dream
• prayer
• world

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Alfred Lord Tennyson

• fall
• world
• started

No sooner do we come into this world, than bits of us start to fall off. Julian Barnes

• people
• world
• she

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea? Frank McCourt

• life
• world
• adorable

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Mary Oliver