Quotes:Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonWithout books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
View quotes by Arthur SchopenhauerFor too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
View quotes by Avery BrundageI believe in the dignity of labour, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
View quotes by John D RockefellerIn order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
View quotes by Albert CamusA hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world
View quotes by Nathaniel HawthorneWhat a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
View quotes by Arthur RimbaudThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
View quotes by Ludwig WittgensteinChange your thoughts and you change your world.
View quotes by Norman Vincent PealeIn Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued unabated.
View quotes by Robert DavisDon't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
View quotes by Colin PowellI have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
View quotes by Mahatma GandhiMost people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it
View quotes by Richard DawkinsAssuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
View quotes by John MiltonSolitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
View quotes by Thomas De QuinceyArt is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
View quotes by Isadora DuncanAll I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
View quotes by Andrea CorrWhen I first heard it i thought it was the most boring phrase in the entire world. Now I'm a real anorak about it. It means the future. It means my children's, children's children, and if you don't think seriously about that, then you don't deserve to live [on sustainable development]
View quotes by Jonathan DimblebyIn such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin
View quotes by Alexander MaclarenI believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
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