Worlds Quotes

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

Often, Carry, Nowhere

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy

Education, Best, Said

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau

Thought, Whole, Within

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny Depp

Human, Strange, Behavior

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau

Eyes, Once, Expect

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Men, Through

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Robert Kiyosaki

Face, Open, Doubts

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Best, True, Possible

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Death, Become, Destroyer

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

Knowledge, Alone, Live

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale

Change, Great, Attitude

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
Marilyn vos Savant

Work, Live, Give

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Two, Between, Force

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron

Living, Why, Here

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron

Life, Night, Two

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Virginia Woolf

Time, Together, Romance

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel

Power, Powerful, Small

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

Age, Nature, Sun

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young

Life, Education, Work

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

Nature, Great, History

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
Robert Browning

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
Sid Waddell

Tears, Conquer, Salt

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
George W. Bush

Forward, Universe, Moon

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Barbara Bush

Mind, Giving, Others

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Live, Two, Between

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

God, Best, Progress

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Dark, Her, High

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner

Life, Whole, Tree

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Annie Leibovitz

Love, Hope, Outside

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