Quotes and Sayings About World
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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
-- Abraham Maslow -
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction...
-- Abraham Maslow -
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
-- Abraham Verghese -
When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
-- Abu Abbas -
Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
-- Abu Bakr -
There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.
-- Abu Bakr -
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.
-- Achim Steiner -
Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
-- Ada Leverson -
What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
-- Ada Lovelace -
That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.
-- Adam Braun -
I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
-- Adam Carolla -
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
-- Adam Duritz -
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
-- Adam Duritz
