- 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.
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- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for - they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scoring a goal is the best thing in the world because it's the only thing you can't control or predict.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized I didn't just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What's the point of gaining influence if you're not going to use it?
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over time, I have come to believe that 'brave' does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean 'being afraid and doing it anyway.' Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else's permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, 'Do you 'like' me?'
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In this damn world, it's all or nothing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics, character and background. (We are talking about a man, after all, who won the Nobel Peace Prize while ordering the automated killing of suspected Muslim terrorists around the world).
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.
- Exploitative
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't those of us who oppose American aggression in the Muslim world who need manipulative, exploitative reminders about 9/11; it's those who cheer for these policies who are making a follow-up attack ever more likely.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but around the world.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020