- Country
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
- Embracing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
- Deploy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an A-10 squadron commander in the Air Force, I was required to be ready to deploy my 24 Warthogs and team anywhere in the world within 24 hours, including the Korean Peninsula.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up at night thinking about Euripides' 'Hecuba.' That to me is a story that says so much about what it is to be a human being in the middle of a world of unreliable things and people.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020