This World Quotes - Page 31

• Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.

  Charles Barkley

  Men, Thinking, World

  "Are SUV Owners Supporting Terrorism?; California Redefines Rape". “CNN Talkback Live” with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2003.

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• If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Genius, World

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• To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Here And Now, Contact

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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  No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

  Don Rickles

  Beach, World, Matter

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Make Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  God, Religious, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, War, Evil

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• I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Creating

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• It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.

  Theodora

  Animal, World, Fit

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• If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Children, Heart

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• It has to do with the incredibly dangerous place that this world is gonna be as a result of a deal in which we got nothing. We didn't even get four hostages out. We got nothing, and Iran gets everything they want.

  Mike Huckabee

  Iran, World, Four

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.

  Alicia Keys

  Essence, Firsts, World

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• I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.

  Tinchy Stryder

  Brother, Inspiration, Writing

  "Tinchy Stryder: 'I named myself after a Sega Megadrive game'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2009.

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• How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world?

  Juan Trippe

  Hate, Sky, World

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• Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."

  Tom Robbins

  I Like You, People, Alive

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• Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Frustration, Tragedy, Payback

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.68, David C Cook

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• The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

  Marc Maron

  Anxiety, Despair, World

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.

  Mike White

  Running, Book, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.

  David Platt

  Pain, Responsibility, Heart

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.

  David Platt

  Letting Go, Moving, Greatness

  "A summons to lose your life". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. March 26, 2013.

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• There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Art, Husband, Creating

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Afterlife, World, Might

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Goodness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, World, Absolutes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.52, Rajpal & Sons

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• No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wine, Power, Race

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faith, Religious, Long

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