This World Quotes - Page 30

• Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Insecurity, World

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• I can offer you only: this world like a knife

  John Berryman

  Knives, World, Offers

  John Berryman (2014). “The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems”, p.76, Macmillan

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• We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

  Beth Moore

  People, Together, Stronger

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• The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

  John Powell

  Christian, Exercise, Genius

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.107, North Point Press

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• When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.

  Doug Stanhope

  World, Homosexuality, This Society

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• Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Exercise, Weapons

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.

  A.J. Ayer

  Believe, Afterlife, World

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• The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

  Yukio Mishima

  People, Fans, World

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Sea, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.825, Delphi Classics

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• Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.

  Molly Ivins

  Bombs, World, Problem

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• There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.

  Christian Finnegan

  Smart, Names, Two

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• Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

  Stella Benson

  Connections, World, Music Is

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• There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Fire, Soul, World

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• Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

  Yann Martel

  World, Using Words, Invention

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.428, Canongate Books

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• It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, World, Riches

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• The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

  Denis Johnston

  Cynical, Luck, Odd Things

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• No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Soul, Desire

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• There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sorry, Forgiving, World

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• We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

  Frederick William Faber

  Temples, World, Majesty

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• God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sick, World, Way

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• This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Long Ago, Ideas, Sorrow

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Forgiving, World, Betrayed

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life Changing, Thinking, Things In Life

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• Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Positive Thinking, Progress, Quality

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