This World Quotes - Page 9

• Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.

  Robert M

  Taken, Flower, Heart

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• Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope!

  Taylor York

  Voice, Needs, World

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• If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.

  Tyler Perry

  Successful, People, Black

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 14, 2012.

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• This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

  Pete Seeger

  Hypocrisy, World, Way

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Europe, World

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

  Robert Greene

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

  Dave Barry

  Perfect Days, World, Obsession

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• Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

  Cory Booker

  Fighting, Light, Battle

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• The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Knowledge, Men, Mind

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• If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

  Gertrude Atherton

  World, Ifs

  Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.78, Library of Alexandria

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• Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Joy, Sorrow, Bed

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.105, Chicago Review Press

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• I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

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• There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

  Clint Eastwood

  Two, People, World

  "Clint Eastwood on Obama, the Death Penalty, and More" by Ton Junod, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2012.

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• I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you. He or she is worrying about whether you like him, not whether he likes you. He is worrying about whether he looks prepossessing, not whether you are dressed correctly. He is worrying about whether he appears poised, not whether you are. He is worrying about whether you think well of him, not whether he thinks well of you. The way to be yourself ... is to forget yourself.

  Jo Coudert

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Worry

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• Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence, and though the Realm of Permanence pervades this world of change, it cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

  Harold Percival

  Eye, Government, World

  Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.127, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (à courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?

  African Spir

  Selfish, Simple, Justice

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 55), 1937.

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• In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.

  African Spir

  World, Ideals, Eternal

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

  African Spir

  Use, World, Individual

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Vanity, Two, People

  Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.214, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.

  Agnes Strickland

  Fun, World, Next

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• Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Hurt, World, Sometimes

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.445, eBookIt.com

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• My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  World, Certainty, Calculating

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.273

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• Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Office, Heaven

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