#world

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ↗

— John Evelyn

#golden #heart #thread #ties #world

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#get #real #real world #reality #removed

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers? ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#lawyers #nine #why #world #would

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

Let justice be done, though the world perish. ↗

— Ferdinand I

#justice #perish #though #world

Appearance rules the world. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#rules #world

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#dreadfully #hardly #knows #managed #whom

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ↗

— Paul Gallico

#cause #cleanly #crime #defined #dramatically