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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
- Nov 07, 2020
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't get away from the right-wing politics but that's the same all over the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those of us who are in the centre believe in opening up to the world, believe migration on balance is a good thing if it is managed properly, and believe that multilateralism is the best way to solve problems.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an island at the center of the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't know at the same time. They are aware of aspects of the world that are a little bit shadowy, and they choose not to engage with them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
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- Nov 07, 2020