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Quotes About World

The world maddens some, and brutifies others.
~ J. De Finod
Each year on January 16th, International Hot and Spicy Food Day celebrates all the delicious hot and spicy foods around the world... Try a spicy dish that you have never eaten before, or make a recipe with a spice you've never used.
~ NationalDayCalendar.com
Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was... He says that more men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
~ Rudyard Kipling
All sorts of men in one kind of world, you see. Dodge again! here comes Queequeg — all tattooing — looks like the signs of the Zodiac himself.
~ Herman Melville, Moby Dick
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.
~ E. B. White, 1938
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
~ Author Unknown
OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Aquarians are normal. The rest of the world is weird.
~ Jim Davis
Here's to the man who labors and does it with a song. He stimulates his neighbors and helps the world along.
~ Walt Mason
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal opposition to poverty, racism and militarism.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
How beautiful and ugly is this world, producer of patchwork hearts — torn by civilized days, mended in nature and solitude — some weaker at the seams than others.
~ Terri Guillemets #hsp
Candy Day... That was issued for the purpose of sweetening this embittered world, was it?
~ James K. Vardaman, 1917
R. E. MORSE A veteran General who commands the largest army in the world.
~ Charles Wayland Towne
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
~ Allen Klein
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
~ H. L. Mencken
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
~ H. L. Mencken
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
~ H. L. Mencken
There was a zone she had not explored. She could use the same counter, the same sort of password that she used with all these people, but she had passed over in the twinkling of an eye into another forest. This forest was reality. There, the very speaking of the words, conjured up answering sigil, house and barn and terrace and castle and river and little plum tree. A whole world was open. She looked in through a wide doorway.
~ H.D.
Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me?s enough. Behold this world?s delights, and view its various pains: If not to you, the joy it shows to me?s enough.
~ Hafiz
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
~ Hakim Bey
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of completion; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with Autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the substance of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
~ Hal Borland
Susurrus is a different kind of flirt though, fickle as a godling of wind can only be but light and warm as one father, bold as the other. And his is a different kind of love, one that has lasted near as long as this world has now and stayed as fresh somehow, even in his flightiness. It is Susurrus makes her sigh for those days, even though he makes them all sigh.
~ Hal Duncan
History shows that the devout Muslim fundamentalists are one of the most lethal threats the world has ever known.
~ Hal Lindsey
give birth to precocious offspring, able to swim immediately after birth and so to follow their mothers through their fluid world. For
~ Hal Whitehead