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World Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the…
- The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
- Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion…
- In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now…
- And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking…
- There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or…
- And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
- The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
- When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing…
- ...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.
- There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any…
- I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and…
- When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became…
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- 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