- 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
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war in Afghanistan, my world changed suddenly - and profoundly. An article in 'Rolling Stone' magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always enjoyed playing in Switzerland. The crowd support is amazing here, and Basel is one of the best indoor tournaments in the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.
- Blunder
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020