Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks

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• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Great
  • Day

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Country
  • Drama

• Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Real
  • Feeling

• In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Best
  • Others

• What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • World
  • Myself

• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • World
  • Future
  • Success

• The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Soul
  • Really

• I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Humility
  • Warm

• Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • Learning
  • Courage

• This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • World
  • Cool

• The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • World

• At Affectiva, we hire top talent - and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • World
  • Diversity
  • Celebrate

• It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Sports

• The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Mankind
  • Conflict

• A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Fairy
  • Own Way