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World Quotes by Ben Okri
- Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,…
- In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road…
- The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world.…
- I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has…
- Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
- It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials…
- When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer…
- Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it…
- The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be…
- The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
- Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws…
- We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.
- What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated…
- We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact…
- The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of…
- We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It…
- I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach