Save The World Quotes - Page 3

• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
  inspector of desert water holes.

  Edward Abbey

  Water, Hobbies, Desert

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

  Don McLean

  Country, Trying, World

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• I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

  Curtis Jackson

  Artist, Trying, Musician

  "I'm not trying to save the world". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2006.

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• Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

  James Hillman

  Moving, Ideas, Our World

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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• Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Children, Fall

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it.And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Powerful, Hero, Choices

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• I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Artist, Thinking, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.

  Zac Efron

  Character, Men, Suits

  "Zac on dating & dancing". Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 22, 2006.

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• A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Years, World, Fowl

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• Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

  Jim Butcher

  Heroism, World, Saving

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.173, Penguin

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• I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

  Rick Riordan

  Long, Waiting, Brain

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• The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

  Marilyn Manson

  World, Today's Youth, Morbid

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• You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Men, World

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

  Gerard Way

  Mom, Dog, Dad

  "The Superhero" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

  Maurice Strong

  Civilization, World, Saving

  National Review magazine, September 1, 1997.

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• The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

  Mitt Romney

  Becoming One, America, Darkness

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.

  Tom Peters

  Thinking, Needs, World

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• Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

  Grace Paley

  Courage, World, Rage

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.334, Macmillan

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• People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Thinking, People, Important

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

  Magic Johnson

  Mom, Mother, Blessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Thinking, People, World

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• Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

  Rick Riordan

  Latin, Mean, Dragons

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• Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ashes, World, Said

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.238, Macmillan

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• Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

  Erwin McManus

  Names, Giving, Pay

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