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Abraham Cowley1 quote
The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy. — Abraham Cowley · 1647Albert Einstein1 quote
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. — Albert Einstein · 1936Apostle Paul1 quote
Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? — Apostle Paul · 55Cormac McCarthy1 quote
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985David Lloyd George1 quote
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George · 1933Ernest Hemingway1 quote
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940Fred Rogers1 quote
Our 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 · 2002Horace Walpole1 quote
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole · 1776Jesus1 quote
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. — Jesus · 90Matthew Arnold1 quote
The World in which we live and move
Outlasts aversion, outlasts love.
Outlasts each effort, interest, hope,
Remorse, grief, joy. — Matthew Arnold · 1849Ricky Fitts1 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 · 1999Robert Thorne1 quote
There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable. — Robert Thorne · 1589Rudyard Kipling1 quote
This is a great and terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it. — Rudyard Kipling · 1901Salman Rushdie1 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 · 2015Two-Face/Harvey Dent1 quote
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced…fair. — Two-Face/Harvey Dent · 2008V.S. Naipaul1 quote
The world is what it is. — V.S. Naipaul · 1979Voltaire1 quote
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. — Voltaire · 1759Walter Bagehot1 quote
The world is often wiser than any philosopher. — Walter Bagehot · 1863Wendell Berry1 quote
The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry · 1977