Quotes and Sayings About World
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
-- A. A. Gill -
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
-- A. Alfred Taubman -
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
-- A. B. Simpson -
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
-- A. C. Benson -
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
-- A. C. Benson -
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
-- A. D. Coleman -
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
-- A. E. Housman -
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
-- A. E. Housman -
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
-- A. E. Housman -
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
-- A. E. Housman -
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
-- A. E. Waite -
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
-- A. J. Hartley -
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
-- A. J. Liebling -
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
-- A. J. Liebling -
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
-- A. J. Muste -
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
-- A. N. Wilson -
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
-- A. O. Scott -
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
-- A. Powell Davies -
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
-- A. R. Ammons -
My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
-- A. R. Rahman
