This World Quotes - Page 15

Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.

Mike Tyson

Kindness, Humble, Mean

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We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Country, Eye, Men

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It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.490, Delphi Classics

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Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Air, Water, Lovely

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

World, Lasts, Said

Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 November 1789

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Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.

Judith Viorst

Mother, Children, Sibling

Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Mark Twain

Freedom, Blood, Law

Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.1544, e-artnow

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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

Opportunity, Pieces, World

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If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

Thomas Jefferson

Music, Country, Passion

Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson, United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) (1975). “The portable Thomas Jefferson”, Viking Adult

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In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

George Santayana

Lying, Expression, Choices

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Gautama Buddha

Change, Happiness, Time

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Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

Herman Melville

God, Lying, Ideas

Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.272, Herman Melville

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Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

Herman Melville

Reading, Book, Men

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?

Herman Melville

Stars, Faces, Bricks

Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.179, Herman Melville

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And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where;
One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

Charles Kingsley

Age, Comfort, World

Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.94

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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Dorothy Parker

Children, Book, Reading

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

Albert Camus

Judging, Guilt, World

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... this world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being

Adrienne Rich

Giving, World, Rooms

Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.

Summer Sanders

Running, Weekend, Perfect

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... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

Albert Camus

God, Prayer, Hate

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I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.

Sylvia Plath

World, Worthy, Persons

Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

Stendhal

Success, Calling, World

Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.51, World Classic

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Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.

Jim Rohn

Motivational, Opportunity, Tragedy

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 04, 2016

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In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Franz Kafka

Life, World, Deny

Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

Laurence Sterne

Life, Change, Giving

Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.108

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