- Crazy
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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
- Footballer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dream of every footballer and why we train and work is to reach the top, and a World Cup is the top.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law - even the prime minister - and no one, not even him, is above it.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has struck me about the political world, as opposed to the business world, is that rational discourse has become all but impossible. All too often, arguments are conducted not on the basis of facts but on the basis of emotion - and, honestly, it is no fun being abused in the pages of tabloid newspapers or online.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that didn't exist - but I knew black doctors. And I knew black lawyers. And I knew families that, you know, had a mother and a father and kids that were well-behaved.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020