World Quotes - Page 974

We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all over the world. They're not in any way - it seems to me - committed to any one place. So it's easy for them to say, "We don't see this. We don't see poverty. We don't think it's that bad. We think wealth is really being distributed in ways that are fair."

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

The world laughs in flowers.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

Oh, one world at a time!

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.