- Modern
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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
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad traveled a lot, so I only usually saw him on weekends, growing up. His favorite actors in the world were Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. If Clint or Burt had a movie out, we would go to the movies. He didn't like movies, generally, unless Clint or Burt were in them.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
- Conveniently
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
- Masterpiece
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- Nov 07, 2020
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020