Quotes and Sayings About This World
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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 -
In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
-- Adriana TrigianiSource : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.390, Simon and Schuster
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.
-- African Spir -
The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.
-- Akiane KramarikSource : 1908 Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24 Jul.
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We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.
-- Al Bernstein -
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I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
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Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.
-- Alix Ohlin -
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
-- Andre Gide -
Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.
-- Andrew Marvell -
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The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
-- Arthur Miller -
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…†(p. 141).
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
Everything in this world depends upon will.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!
-- Bill Cosby -
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
-- Blanche Willis HowardSource : Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins
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I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world,
-- Bob Sadino -
In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.
-- Brad Meltzer -
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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.
-- Cain Velasquez -
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
-- Charles Dudley WarnerSource : "Updated: No More Making Whoopy In The Military?". barelyablog.com. December 23, 2009.
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It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.
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In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
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I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
-- Craig SilveySource : Song: The Heart of the Matter, Album: The End of the Innocence
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People don't always get what they deserve in this world.
-- Daniel Handler -
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.
-- David Harvey -
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We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
-- David Platt