Sufjan Stevens Quotes

If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

Sufjan Stevens

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• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • World
  • Now
  • Content

• Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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  • Kiss
  • Greatest

• The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Brave

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • World
  • Respect
  • Person

• We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Best
  • Medicine

• The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • People
  • Kind
  • Majority

• I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Love
  • Job

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• The psychotherapist … tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

  

  Alan Watts
  • World
  • Help
  • Giving

• The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Real

• By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • War
  • Pressure
  • Weapons

• The words of the Lord are found in the scriptures and the teachings of the apostles and prophets. They provide us counsel and direction that, when followed, will act like a spiritual life jacket and will help us know how to hold on with both hands.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Help
  • Words

• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • World
  • Kind
  • Morality