- Feel
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.
- Frenzy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.
- Eloquently
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
- Buffet
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- Nov 07, 2020
For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
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