Nature & World Sayings

343 sayings found from 343 authors

The whole planet is run by pedophiles.

— Roseanne Barr 2018
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I'm a really good driver. That's why I have so many speeding tickets.

— Lindsay Lohan 2007
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I'm a alien. I'm not from this planet.

— R. Kelly 2013
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

— Ovid 13 CE
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Women are different from men in form because they are females, just as all females in the kingdom of plants and animals differ from the male of their species… Since men cannot be impregnated they do not experience the ailments that women do. She brea…

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
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Let none of your possessions detain you, no solicitude for your family affairs, since this land which you inhabit is everywhere shut in by the sea and surrounded by mountain peaks.

— Pope Urban II 1095
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A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

— Philip K. Dick Unknown
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The experience of one's own country and of other countries, the experience of men and women, of cities and of the earth, is an experience which can only be had in freedom.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1953
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The economic ills of the world are not incurable. They are the result of the failure of men to use the vast resources of the earth for the benefit of all.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

— Nelson Mandela 1964
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I used to think when I was young, that I was adopted by my mother because they found me in a spaceship, and they let me out, and I was from a different planet.

— Kurt Cobain Unknown
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When we're thinking small, that's another thing we're always on the lookout for: big egos. You don't have to have a small ego to work here, but you'd better know how to make it look small, or you might wind up in trouble.

— Sam Walton Unknown
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If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

— Ray Kroc Circa 1970s-1980s (attributed in various sources, one mentions 1988 Fortune article).
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Bread, or water, or wine, which are the ordinary food and nourishment of the body, yet are not by nature bread, water, or wine, but become so by the application of the mind.

— John Locke 1689
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The only method of freeing us from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacities, that it is by no means fitted for such remote and abstruse sub…

— David Hume 1748
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Our people have placed trust, as high as the sky and as deep as the sea, in me, but I have failed to always live up to it satisfactorily. I am really sorry for that.

— Kim Jong-un 2020
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day when he should not. But we do not choose the day for the sea. She chooses it for us.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1954
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If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, his moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

— Ayatollah Khomeini 1960s
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Religion is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life, a reflection in which earthly forces assume the form of supernatural forces.

— Friedrich Engels 1878
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With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd—'I came like Water, and like Wind I go.'

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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