World Quotes
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The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
William Ross Wallace -
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.
Flannery O'Connor
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The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.
W. H. Auden -
To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
Adora Svitak -
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
David Mitchell -
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Anthony Robbins -
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
D. H. Lawrence -
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
M. Scott Peck
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I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.
Serena Williams -
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
William Butler Yeats -
The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.
Sheena Easton -
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.
William Allen White -
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
Eudora Welty -
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
Elon Musk
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I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
Annie Ilonzeh -
What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.
Michael Shannon -
I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like.
Kenya Barris -
In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
Pam Brown -
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.
Jonathan Sacks -
I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.
Joe R. Lansdale
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...now...that I am a wise person. As for me, I wish there were some more of us in the world, for I find it lonesome.
Mark Twain -
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
Kevin Systrom -
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.
N. T. Wright -
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
Joseph Nye