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Letter "W" » World
«Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.»
Author: Eva Burrows
| About:
Men,
Needs,
Strength,
Trouble,
Women,
World
| Keywords:
aggressive, arise, competitive, emphasis, feminine, hyperactive, masculine, modern world, neglect, This Modern World
«My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.»
«Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate»
«Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence»
Author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
| About:
Men,
World
| Keywords:
extract, firmament, microcosm, planets, planet Earth, quintessence, The Elements
«Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
another planet, hell, maybe, our planet, planet
«Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe»
«Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Change,
Positive thinking,
World
| Keywords:
citizens, committed, group, indeed, small change, Small World, thoughtful
«Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Life,
World
| Keywords:
dedicate, Greeks, savageness, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, the Greeks, wrote
«Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
World
| Keywords:
fiction, literature, luxury, necessity
«Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Death and dying,
Misery,
Sin,
World
| Keywords:
harbinger, woe
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