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The world24 quotes
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. — Voltaire · 1759The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry · 1977Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related. — Fred Rogers · 2002Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999And God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:21 · 1405 BCAll 24 quotes →Nature of the world3 quotes
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. — Voltaire · 1759And God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:21 · 1405 BCThe eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. — Albert Einstein · 1936Creation2 quotes
And God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:21 · 1405 BCIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — Genesis 1:1 · 1405 BCCreation of the world2 quotes
And God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:21 · 1405 BCIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — Genesis 1:1 · 1405 BCAdversity1 quote
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. — Jesus · 90Beauty1 quote
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999Beginning of time1 quote
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — Genesis 1:1 · 1405 BCChanging the world1 quote
But it’s a resilient place, the world, and its beauty is still astonishing, and as for the mess we’ve made, you can change it, and I believe you’re going to. — Salman Rushdie · 2015Circle of life1 quote
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. — Ecclesiastes 1:4 · 931 BCDeath1 quote
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940Decline1 quote
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George · 1933Decline of civilization1 quote
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George · 1933End of the world1 quote
This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when. — Armageddon · 1998End times1 quote
This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when. — Armageddon · 1998Ephemeral nature of life1 quote
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. — Ecclesiastes 1:4 · 931 BCFallen world1 quote
The whole world lieth in wickedness. — 1st John 5:19 · 95Feeling overwhelmed1 quote
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999Impossibility of progress1 quote
The world is what it is. — V.S. Naipaul · 1979Life1 quote
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. — Ecclesiastes 1:4 · 931 BCMan and nature1 quote
There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable. — Robert Thorne · 1589Morality1 quote
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced…fair. — Two-Face/Harvey Dent · 2008Nature1 quote
The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy. — Abraham Cowley · 1647Origin of the universe1 quote
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — Genesis 1:1 · 1405 BCOriginal sin1 quote
The whole world lieth in wickedness. — 1st John 5:19 · 95Overcoming adversity1 quote
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. — Jesus · 90Problem of evil1 quote
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. — Voltaire · 1759Progress1 quote
But it’s a resilient place, the world, and its beauty is still astonishing, and as for the mess we’ve made, you can change it, and I believe you’re going to. — Salman Rushdie · 2015Randomness1 quote
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced…fair. — Two-Face/Harvey Dent · 2008