- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
- Disheartening
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020