- Good
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
- Cleanest
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
- Endurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.
- Rank
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
- Contemporary World
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- Nov 07, 2020