- 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
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man or woman of our armed forces or law enforcement will pass from this world unnoticed. They will not be forgotten. They will not just fade away.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020