World Quotes - Page 882

[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

It’s not just Israel who refuses to speak to Hamas. It’s the whole international community… Most of the democratic world refuses to have a relationship with Hamas because Hamas has refused to meet the most minimal benchmarks of international behavior.

In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched.

I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.

The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

For me, I don't want to live in a world where I am afraid of making the kind of art I want to make. The idea that I should be afraid of publicly ridiculing and mocking and chopping up and rearranging a giant corporation that intrudes on my life whether I want it to or not every day... The idea that I have to be afraid to do that is absurd to me.

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride. Among other things, it's impractical. It just doesn't work. The world doesn't work that way.

World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in which I will spend my life, every single one, that is the seminal event of the history that we will experience.

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.