F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Wise Quotes, World Quotes

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

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Beauty would save the world.

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It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.

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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

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We concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. Many nations have voiced a commitment to peace and security, and now they must demonstrate that commitment to peace and security in the only effective way: by supporting the immediate and unconditional disarmament of Saddam Hussein.

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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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