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World Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL…
- I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am…
- EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
- The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To…
- Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
- There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's…
- Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
- Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through…
- Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do…
- Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement…
- Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
- Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be…
- For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons,…
- Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between…
- For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the…
- The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than…
- In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually…
- A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and…
- To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade…
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