#world

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves. ↗

— Jamie Luner

#baby #doing #felt #i #i love

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#doing #double #every #human #human nature

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#basic #behind #curiosity #drive #interest

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#help #help people #i #learned #people

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world. ↗

— Gary Locke

#cannot #china #entire #entire world #good

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ↗

— John Locke

#fence #knowledge #only #thorough #thorough knowledge

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. ↗

— Carole Lombard

#code #designed #first #fit #forget

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#better #else #i #like #persons

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#good #had #heroes #himself #husbands