Eudora Welty Quotes

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

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• When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • World
  • Debate
  • Plants

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Down
  • Foot

• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Washington
  • Mecca

• For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Culture
  • Years

• What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • World
  • Against
  • Tour

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Picture
  • Museum

• 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • World

• Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun.You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.Never suppose an inventing mind as source Of this idea nor for that mind compose A voluminous master folded in his fire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fire

• I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • Great
  • Business

• Alas! the great world goes its way,And takes its truth from each new day;They do not quit, nor can retain,Far less consider it again.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • World
  • Great
  • Truth

• More disturbing still was their frequent use of the word 'dominance' to describe their strategic goal, because an American policy of dominance is as repugnant to the rest of the world as the ugly dominance of the helpless, naked Iraqi prisoners has been to the American people. Dominance is as dominance does.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded... on the principle of conspicuous waste.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • World
  • Culture
  • Design

• I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.

  

  David Alpay
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • World
  • Real
  • Movie

• I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • World
  • Women
  • Done

• I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.

  

  Eli Broad
  • World
  • Live

• Every game's a big game.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Game

• I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Love

• I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Helping

• Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

  

  Sappho
  • Soul
  • Mountain
  • Ancient

• Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

  

  Eudora Welty
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