- Happy
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- 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
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I always say is that money doesn't have colour. It doesn't matter whether you are from Africa or anywhere in the world. The colour of money is the same.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, it's not the labels buying the music: it's the people out there, and you have to be behind the music and not anyone else. You're the one representing it, you're playing it for everyone; you're doing promotion and travelling around the world.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020