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World Quotes - Page 1018

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Preface to "Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century". Printed by Shop Roycroft Printi, 1897.

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.315, Cosimo, Inc.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.247, New York Review of Books

He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him

Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.28, Penguin

Little things that run the world.

"Expo Line Landscaping Lunacy" by Lisa Novick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

Edward Young (1824). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.227

They most the world enjoy who least admire.

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

"Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.

"Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.