World Quotes - Page 452

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.19, Vintage
That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.
Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.10, Penguin
Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin
"Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy". Book by Sarah Ban Breathnach, 2008.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Samuel Richardson (1754). “The history of sir Charles Grandison, in a series of letters publ. by the editor of Pamela. To which is added A brief history of the treatment which the editor has met with from certain booksellers and printers in Dublin”, p.345
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 219 (on Charles XII of Sweden)
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.429
Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.64, Simon and Schuster