World Quotes
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I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
Andy Rooney
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I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.
Maurice Strong
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I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
Linda Evans
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He thinks the world of our team. He thinks we've got heart and fight.
Joe Gibbs
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Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.
D. V. Ager
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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
E. M. Delafield
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I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.
Marina and the Diamonds
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
Charles Van Doren
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It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to bear in healing reconciliation, and hope.
N. T. Wright
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In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.
Robert Zoellick
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Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
Peter Diamandis
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I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.
Kimbal Musk
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I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
Joe Namath
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The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell':
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
Clinton Sparks
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.
Erica Jong
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Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
Cate Blanchett
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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.
Angus Deaton
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At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
Paulo Coelho