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World Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
- Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your…
- To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a…
- I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
- Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension…
- I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge…
- They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man…
- Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
- For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
- When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which…
- If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
- The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
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