Woooooorld Quotes & Sayings

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. — John Milton

True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement. — Pope John Paul II

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. — James Luther Adams

I've never seen anyone cry like this. Quiet but gushing, a faucet behind his eyes mysteriously turned on. — Gayle Forman

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki

All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation — Vivian Amis

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option. — Gabriel Campisi

If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars! — Richard Simmons

A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while! — Faith Hill

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell. — James A. Michener

Word for word, Galland's version [of the One Thousand and One Nights] is the worst written, the most fraudulent and the weakest, but it was the most widely read. Readers who grew intimate with it experienced happiness and amazement. Its orientalism, which we now find tame, dazzled the sort of person who inhaled snuff and plotted tragedies in five acts. Twelve exquisite volumes appeared from 1707 to 1717, twelve volumes innumerably read, which passed into many languages, including Hindustani and Arabic. We, mere anachronistic readers of the twentieth century, perceive in these volumes the cloyingly sweet taste of the eighteenth century and not the evanescent oriental aroma that two hundred years ago was their innovation and their glory. No one is to blame for this missed encounter, least of all Galland. — Jorge Luis Borges

confidence is acquired, developed. — David J. Schwartz

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. — Will Durant

I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises. — Augustus Toplady