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The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
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I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...

View quotes by Thornton Wilder

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
View quotes by Thomas Sowell

As if everyone, all over the world, had his daily visually artistic task; the task of being an image for others.
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Up front we played like world beaters - at the back it was more like panel beaters
View quotes by Paul Jewell

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
View quotes by Mao Zedong

I'm out of the squad, Dad, cancel the holiday to France. [on not being in the 1998 World Cup squad]
View quotes by Paul Gascoigne

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
View quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
View quotes by Clarence Darrow

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.
View quotes by Art Blakey

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it
View quotes by G H Lewes

They have those fans who are so emotional and fanatical, they expect to win the World Cup [on Newcastle fans]
View quotes by Sir Alex Ferguson

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
View quotes by John Barth

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
View quotes by Barry Goldwater

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
View quotes by John Acton

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
View quotes by David Leavitt

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
View quotes by Aleister Crowley

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
View quotes by Barbara Tuchman

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