Anne McCaffrey Quotes
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.Anne McCaffrey
Quotes to Explore
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
Ted Turner -
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
Gary Hamel -
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
Samantha Bee -
The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
Orison Swett Marden
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
Frances Beinecke -
One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
Wagner Moura -
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Gary Oldman -
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
Vince Cable -
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai Lama -
Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
Mahershala Ali -
As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
Abigail Washburn -
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
Randy Travis -
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.
Bill Viola -
Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.
Asia Argento -
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume -
I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.
Jennifer Konner -
I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.
David Slade -
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Anne McCaffrey