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World Quotes (page 426)

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight Elvis Presley
Bob Marley quote: "until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but..."
until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask! Bob Marley
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. David Baldacci
Terry Brooks quote: "Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly..."
Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world. Terry Brooks
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong. Robert Henri
Yes, yes, I see it all!? an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist? for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man? Miguel de Unamuno
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen. Philip Pullman
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important? Herman Hesse
John F. Kennedy quote: "Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life."
Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. John F. Kennedy
Herman Melville quote: "Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay...."
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. Herman Melville
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language Jane Austen
Sri Chinmoy quote: "Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the..."
Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself. Sri Chinmoy
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly. Ray Bradbury
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and... Arthur Schopenhauer
T. H. White quote: "All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly..."
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. T. H. White

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