Our World Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

  Antoni Tapies

  Religious, Art, Loss

  "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

  Paul Schrader

  Struggle, Hung, Screenwriters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oil is sixty dollars a barrel. There are terrorists everywhere. We have a catastrophe in our world every ten minutes. I don't know how anybody's getting through anything. Right now, people just need to be entertained.

  Bob Saget

  Oil, People, Dollars

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Perfection, Quirky

  "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Only His Wings Remained", p. 54, 1985.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  Ed Miliband

  Responsibility, Sides, Injustice

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Moon, Light, Bird

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Hate, Technology, Robots

  7 Copy quote

• We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Powerful, Smart, Needs

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

  Tavis Smiley

  Becoming, Difficult, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Art, Long, Facts

  16 Copy quote

• The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

  Robert Fripp

  Thinking, Shapes, Way

  27 Copy quote

• The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.

  Tacitus

  Ocean, Race, Land

  Tacitus (1851). “Germania by Tacitus”, p.2, Charles River Editors

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  Believe, Healing, Heart

  10 Copy quote

• We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Thinking, Darkness

  Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear (2014). “Lovecraft's Monsters”, p.21, Tachyon Publications

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Powerful, Men, Numbers

  "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 119, 1972.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

  Jon Anderson

  Giving, Sun, Energy

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source