Our World Quotes
686 Our World quotes by 527 unique authors
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And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along…
— Shane Claiborne
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Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that…
— Debbie Macomber
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But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded…
— Jean Vanier
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For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has…
— Henry Miller
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Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely,…
— David Almond
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a…
— William Golding
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Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost…
— Sam Harris
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We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she…
— Alice Hoffman
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If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we…
— Audre Lorde
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...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
— Brian Greene
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our…
— Terence McKenna
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Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold…
— Pema Chodron
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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder…
— Cornelia Funke
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Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said…
— Susan Cooper
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our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
— C.S. Lewis
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In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a…
— C.S. Lewis
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Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.
— Paulo Coelho
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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