- People
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.
- Harbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a fragrant world.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school and college, I gathered a number of medals for marksmanship, but I have long since abandoned this activity, having concluded that the world would be a better place with fewer sharpshooters.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020