quotes about Our World
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We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
-- Adam HochschildSource : "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.
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The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
-- Adam Schiff -
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today. ~Jessop
-- Agatha Christie -
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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
-- Al Gore -
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...
-- Al Gore -
It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.
-- Alain de Botton -
We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue...that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,
-- Alain J. P. Belda -
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High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
-- Alan AutrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
-- Alan LightmanSource : ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.
-- Albert HofmannSource : "LSD : My Problem Child" by Albert Hofmann, (Foreword), 1980.
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If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.
-- Alberto VilloldoSource : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Oct 04, 2013
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
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Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
-- Alton Brown -
If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.
-- Alvin PlantingaSource : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.217, Oxford University Press
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Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.
-- Amelie MauresmoSource : Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.
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Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe. For me it’s more a synonym. I read a picture not for what’s really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
-- Andreas GurskySource : "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.
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It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us...
-- Ann VoskampSource : Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.156, Zondervan
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As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.
-- Anna Halprin -
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Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.
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The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
-- Arlene Raven -
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.
-- Arman -
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Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
-- Arthur Golden -
If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
-- Audre LordeSource : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press
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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
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Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
-- Barack Obama -
I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.
-- Barack Obama -
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Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.
-- Barack Obama -
So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you want to reach out and touch others in a way that expresses self and really evolves our communities and our world. Certainly, we can't do that unless we activate ourselves first. That's why, for me, emergence is the shift from ego to essence. That is so important.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
-- Ben Nicholson -
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
-- Benjamin Carson -
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What is important, what I consider success, is that we make a contribution to our world.
-- Benjamin Carson -
By thinking big, we can transform our world.
-- Benjamin Carson -
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.
-- Bernard Beckett -
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
-- Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleSource : "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology". Book by Mark Brake, 2012.
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Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
-- Betty Williams -
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
-- Bill Frist -
Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
-- Bill Hybels -
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.
-- Billy Graham -
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God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
-- Billy Graham -
Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
-- Billy GrahamSource : Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc
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While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.
-- Billy Graham -
The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.
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We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.
-- Bob Ross -
Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.
-- Bonnie Baker -
I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.
-- Brandi Carlile -
There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!
-- Brandon Boyd -
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Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.
-- Brené Brown -
So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
At the edge of our world, at the edge of the otherworld, the beautiful and mysterious faeries stand, watching and waiting to greet us, inviting us to journey with them as our guides while we walk the infinite paths of the Faerie.
-- Brian Froud -
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
-- Brian Greene -
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It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you all.
-- Brittany Maynard -
Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
-- C. S. Lewis -
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
-- Carl Jung -
we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
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"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.
-- Carlos P. Romulo -
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.
-- Charles de Lint -
Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgement better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticing eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.
-- Charles H. Percy -
Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works
-- Charles Hendry -
In summary, our world is doomed.
-- Charlie BrookerSource : "Screenwipe", Season 4, Episode 4, October 16, 2007.
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I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
-- Chelsea Clinton -
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.
-- Christine Caine -
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WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.
-- Christopher LockeSource : Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls (2009). “The Cluetrain Manifesto”, p.73, Basic Books
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We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.
-- Christopher OkigboSource : Christopher Okigbo (1986). “Collected poems”, Heinemann Educational Books
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You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.
-- Chuck Liddell -
We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.
-- Chuck Norris -
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Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.
-- Colleen HanabusaSource : "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.
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There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.
-- Corazon Aquino -
we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.
-- Cynthia HeimelSource : Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”
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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
-- D. A. Carson -
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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us.
-- D. James Kennedy -
What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.
-- Dalai Lama -
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Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.
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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.
-- Daniel GolemanSource : "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.
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When we focus on others, our world expands.
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We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
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This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.
-- David Almond -
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.
-- David Boaz -
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.
-- David Bryant -
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
-- David ChalmersSource : "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.
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Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.
-- David J. LiebermanSource : Dr. David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. (2010). “Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement”, p.107, Macmillan
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In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.
-- David LynchSource : "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
-- David Lynch -
There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within - help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.
-- David Lynch -
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There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.
-- Dean Mitchell -
Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.
-- Debbie MacomberSource : Debbie Macomber (2014). “Choir of Angels”, p.315, MIRA
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Nowadays, hoy en dÃa, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!
-- Denise Chavez -