- 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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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it's a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don't know.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
- Arab World
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- Nov 07, 2020