World Quotes - Page 479
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
Sir Isaac Newton (1962). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world”, p.397, Univ of California Press
If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.
"The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time". Book edited by Daniel S. Burt, July 1998.
Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam
"Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman" by Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima, translated by Paul Britten Austin, 1973.
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.16, Random House
Huston Smith (1959). “The Religions of Man”
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.
Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach, Michael Grieve (1993). “Selected Poetry”, p.148, New Directions Publishing
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.9, Routledge