World Quotes - Page 615

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

There is a world elsewhere.

And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it.

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.