World Quotes - Page 1034

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

The sexiest thing in the world is to be totally naked with your wedding band on.

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].

There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo.

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.