World Quotes - Page 750

The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an acceleration of images in the world, and that was before Flickr and so on. So I felt a need to slow down how one consumes photographs. With the abstract pictures, I was engaged in trying to find new images, but in practice, it was a bit like throwing a wrench in the spokes. The omnipresence of photography is at a level that it has never been in the history of the world. I feel really curious to now reengage and see what the camera can do for me.

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

This guy [Tyson Fury] really wants to prove himself in the ring and confirm what he keeps telling everyone, that he's the best in the world.

There is no money in this world that will make us fight.

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Without ships, we cannot live.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard - really, really hard.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.