- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be friendly and say 'please' and 'thank you.' I try and remember it and use it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can give something to the next generation, I want to give a message of positivity, to believe in themselves, because I think the world has just a lot of unnecessary stresses to be a certain way, look a certain way, do certain things.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say the first concert I ever went to is my earliest memory. I was four and already obsessed with Michael Jackson. We were living in Munich at the time. My mom, being the best person ever, somehow managed to get us two tickets to the '97 Michael Jackson History World Tour.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little while and it's safe in that you are watching other people go through some troubles rather than yourself. It's there every night, and there is something special about that sort of terrestrial television experience for a mass audience.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creators of Wonder Woman had no interest in proving an actual link to the past. In some parts of the academic world, however, the historical existence of the Amazons, or any matriarchal society, has long been a raging issue.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not aware of a ton of the stuff that was being said about me out in the world since I wasn't able to get British or American headlines from my prison cell in Perugia. But I was aware that in the courtroom, I was being called a succubus, a man-eater, 'Foxy Knoxy.'
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that Perugia is probably the least-welcome place for me in the entire world.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world.
- Beautiful Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020