Our World Quotes - Page 14

• The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

  Michael Crichton

  True Power, Profound, Important

  Michael Crichton (2008). “Timeline”, p.480, Random House

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• In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hair, Rainbow, Ribbons

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Skills, Bravery

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• Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Enemy, Looks

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• We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

  Gary Chapman

  Reality, Human Nature, Failing

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.23, Moody Publishers

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• My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he'd been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities? I looked around “my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Heart, Cities, Long

  "Dreamfever". Book by Karen Marie Moning, August 18, 2009.

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• 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.

  Wole Soyinka

  Ideas, Peaceful, Cohabitation

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Apr 07, 2015

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• Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters.

  David Wolfe

  Water, Car, Toxic

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• I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.

  Reggie Watts

  People, Decision, Levels

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• I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

  Isaac Marion

  Beautiful, Thinking, Growing

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time' These are the most magical words our world has ever known and the gateway to the greatest stories ever told. They're an immediate calling to anyone who hears them-a calling into a world where everyone is welcome and anything can happen. Mice can become men, maids can become princesses, and they can teach valuable lessons in the process.

  Chris Colfer

  Princess, Men, Once Upon A Time

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• I — I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods perhaps there is time forever; but God in Himself has the whole of it, all times at once. It would be true to say that He came into our world and died here, in a time and a place; but it would also be true to say that in His eternity it is always That Place and That Time — here — and at this moment — and the power He had then, He can give to us now, as much as He did to those who saw and touched Him when He was alive on the earth.

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Mean, Past, Giving

  Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard Cuffari (2001). “The Perilous Gard”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

  Nicholas Sparks

  Autism, Aspergers, Way

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• Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Growing Up, Expansion, Size

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• I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

  Agatha Christie

  Sorry, Block, Self

  "Murder International: Including So Many Steps to Death Death Comes as the End Evil Under the Sun".

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• In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.

  Jacques Ellul

  Taken, Mean, Civilization

  "The Presence of the Kingdom" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Olive Wyon, Seabury paperback, (p. 33), 1967.

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• My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.

  Fritjof Capra

  Views, Ideas, Profound

  "The Turning Point". Book by Fritjof Capra, www.juwing.sp.ru. 1982.

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• Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pain, Idols, Greed

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• 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

  Would Be, Today, Prejudice

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Important, Sound

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• It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Differences, Essentials

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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• Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Peace, Stars, Eye

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Mind, Viewpoints

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.333, Vintage Canada

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• 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

  Light, Worry, Negativity

  "David Lynch Questions 9/11 On National U.S. Radio". Prison Planet, January 25, 2007.

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• We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Mind, Comfort

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "A Special Fondness for Beetles", pp. 386-387, 1995.

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