This World Quotes - Page 16

• Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

  Laurence Sterne

  Education, Father, Knowledge

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.173

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• Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Loneliness, Despair

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Home, Clothes, Shelter

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2002). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”

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• The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

  Tim Tharp

  World, Way, Lasts

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Scholastic UK

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• The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Venice, Essentials

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• ... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Moving, Men

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Important, World, Pushing

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• I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

  George Berkeley

  Angel, Thinking, Dungeons

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1820). “The Works of George Berkeley”, p.66

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• Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.

  Bill Murray

  World, Seeing

  "Interview with 'Lost in Translation' Star Bill Murray". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.thoughtco.com. September 3, 2003.

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• New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Fall, Ideas, Style

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• Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

  Matthew Henry

  Thinking, Long, World

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.4

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• Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Men, World, Scandal

  "Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life". Book by Ted Goodman, 2016.

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• I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

  Ibn Battuta

  Desire, World, Earth

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• Little I ask
  And that little is not granted."
  There are few crumbs
  In this world any more.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  World, Charity, Littles

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• Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Profound, Simplicity, Achievement

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• Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

  Antonin Artaud

  Soul, World, Rotting

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

  Les Claypool

  Life, Fun, Swimming

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• The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.

  Chet Atkins

  Country, Song, Fall

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• With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

  James Hutton

  World, Earth, Economy

  James Hutton (1960). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations”

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• I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.

  Judith Jamison

  Children, Believe, World

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

  Charlize Theron

  Rest In Peace, Impact, Forever

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2013

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• ...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

  Gene Brown

  People, Justice, World

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• Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.

  Tintoretto

  Heaven, World, Paradise

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• Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

  Thomas Huxley

  Next, Facts, World

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.69, Lulu.com

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