Our World Quotes - Page 16

• In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

  Paul McCartney

  Way, Logical, Aspect

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

  Jose Canseco

  Looks, Critique, Ifs

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Character, Thinking, People

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

  Tony Blair

  Climate, Results, Ifs

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Confusion, Shadow, Different

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.152, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Writing, Self, Solitude

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• The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)... Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

  Colin Powell

  Effort, Honor, Principles

  Colin Powell's acceptance speech at the UN-USA Global Leadership Award, April 21, 1993.

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• The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Running, Ecosystems, Weight

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• Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

  Jon Heder

  Brother, Block, Thinking

  "Revenge Of The Nerd". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. March 27, 2007.

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• In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Discovery

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• There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

  Hari Kunzru

  Religious, People, Use

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• As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Names, Giving

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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 Mauresmo

  Sports, Needs, Way

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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• Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Marriage, Break, Latter

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.33, BookBaby

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• Life is made of moments and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact Then there's a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep.

  Jessi Kirby

  Lonely, Sleep, Night

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• Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

  Sudhir Kakar

  War, Drinking, Humility

  Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Country, Heart, Adventure

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• Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Shapes, Language, Consciousness

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• As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Way, Praise

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• Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

  Mark Salzman

  Compassion, Justice, Understanding

  Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage

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• What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

  Thomas Burnet

  Rude, World, Lumps

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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.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Understanding, Trying

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.

  Robin S

  Thinking, Huge, Values

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