- 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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. military is known the world over for its advanced technology as well as the prowess, skill, and dedication of its service members. When you grow up in the company of its leaders, as I did, you understand that this greatness is something that is cultivated.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's no city quite like New York, and I've seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire this place, its energy. It's the repository of so much history and culture and diversity.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
- Finnish
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020