- 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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in the camera's eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.
- Drops
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020