- Night
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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
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
And a pang is ultimately private. It's not a thing that gets broadcast to the world; it's a kind of internal alarm that sounds when something has to change and it has to change fast.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York, if you spend a few hours doing nothing, you feel like the whole world passed you by.
- Flipped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the grownup world an apology tour is just for show.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020