World Where Quotes
759 World Where quotes by 638 unique authors
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To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all…
— Neal Stephenson
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I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close…
— Charles de Lint
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Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones,…
— Stephen Colbert
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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…
— Rebecca Solnit
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness…
— Khalil Gibran
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In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only…
— Edith Wharton
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In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity…
— Stephen King
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The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and…
— Bell Hooks
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
— Leon Trotsky
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Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let…
— George W. Bush
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We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my…
— Camille Paglia
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All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps…
— Thrity Umrigar
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Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no…
— Paulo Coelho
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I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they…
— Robin Wasserman
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...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers…
— Ira Glass
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die?…
— Alfred de Vigny
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As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.
— Raymond Chandler
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
— Edward Abbey
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the…
— Truman Capote
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I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent…
— Haruki Murakami
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