Quotes and Sayings About World
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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
-- Adrienne Rich -
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
-- Adyashanti -
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
-- Adyashanti -
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea. In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
-- Adyashanti -
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
-- Aeschylus -
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.
-- African Spir -
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.
-- African Spir -
There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.
-- African Spir -
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.
-- Aga Khan IV -
We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity
-- Aga Khan IV -
There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
-- Aga Khan IV -
I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
-- Agatha Christie -
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
-- Agatha Christie -
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
-- Agatha Christie -
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
-- Agnes de Mille -
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
-- Agnes Repplier -
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.
-- Agnes Strickland -
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.
-- Agnivesh -
The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.
-- Agnivesh -
But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.
-- Ahmad Shah Massoud -
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world
-- Ahmed Yassin -
History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
-- Ahmed Yassin
