Old World Quotes - Page 5

• Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Graduation, Sweet, Yield

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

  Peter Diamandis

  Men, Class, Minorities

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

  Vera Nazarian

  Oasis, Roots, East

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Even I like to go to certain restaurants and places where you have to wear a jacket, a suit and a tie, and I like that sort of old world style. I am sure it will come back in many ways, if it hasn't already. It's kind of nice and it breaks it up.

  Robert De Niro

  Nice, Ties, Style

  Source: www.readersdigest.co.uk

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• In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

  Hannes Holm

  Order, Ideas, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Ice, Attachment

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.

  Marco Pierre White

  Reality, Years, Romance

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Princess, Tunnels, Media

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My grandfather always told me, You know youre American first, but youre a Greek-American, which makes you a better American. It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Sweet, Greek, Grandfather

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• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Crush, Technology, Broken

  "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

  Ambrose Bierce

  America, Details, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.571, Library of America

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• While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Pride, Government, Cities

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• My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

  Woody Allen

  Heart, Parent, Identity

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• While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.

  Crystal Eastman

  Sex, War, Ignorance

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Plato, Mistake, Cutting

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• Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

  Neil Young

  Faith, Bridges, World

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• We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

  Dan Barber

  Technology, Generations, Flavor

  Source: www.starchefs.com

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• Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you were a Christian Slave. I saw, I took, I cast you by, I bent and broke your pride... And a myriad suns have set and shone, since then upon the grave, Decreed by the King in Babylon, to her that had been his slave. The pride I trampled is now my scathe, for it tramples me again. The old remnant lasts like death for you love, yet you refrain. I break my heart on your hard unfaith, and I break my heart in vain.

  William Ernest Henley

  Karma, Christian, Kings

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• The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, World, Vomiting

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• You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mother, Running, Listening

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• If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Venice, Museums

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Money, Waiting, Challenges

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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• Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

  Oswald Mosley

  People, Movement, World

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.298, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
  Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
  And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
  A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
  Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
  A mystic child is set in these still hours.
  I keep this time, even before the flowers,
  Sacred to all the young and the unborn.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Spring, Flower

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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