World Quotes - Page 685

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

The world is in motion, as it seems.

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at it…The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

Friends give us the change to lift the blinds on our hearts to open up and show what we generally keep hidden from the rest of world.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

I can only imagine being the most famous person in the world, what that must be like when you go to the grocery store, when you go anywhere.

In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don't believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist. (Quoting feedback from a reader)

I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

I don't think anyone is committing idolatry by wanting to live in any part of the world where they can enjoy the basic necessities of life. Granted, many of us here, in the U.S., have well beyond what constitutes basic necessities.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.

The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no longer, if you were a colonial subject of France in Africa, look to France as a model of power and influence and civility after what had happened in the war. Nor could the French any longer afford to run their empire. And nor could the British, although they were not discredited in the way that the French were.