Whole World Quotes - Page 19

• It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

  James Buchan

  Iraq, Southern, Kashmir

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• I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!

  Brooke Burke

  World, Want, Breasts

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• I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

  Jane Campion

  Women, Writing, Feminist

  "Wanted: female film-makers" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

  Billy Graham

  Soul, World, Gains

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• A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

  Alexander the Great

  Death, Acceptance, Political

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• The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Giving Up, World

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection”, p.143, eBookIt.com

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• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Bird, Rising

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.87, eBookIt.com

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• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

  Peter Hammill

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Clever, Reality, Mirrors

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting at Zero”, p.11, Heyne Verlag

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• One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Home, House

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• It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, World, Reason

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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  I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Issues, Environmental

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• Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Loving Someone, Bed

  "Bradley Had Profound Impact on Black Journalists". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 10, 2006.

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• There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Honesty, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, World, Poverty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.32, Jerome K. Jerome

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• The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

  Billy Joel

  Country, Rocks, Blue

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

  Food, Anger, Thinking

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• Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Law, Principles

  "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1785.

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• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, World, Sexuality

  Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.

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  In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.148, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Lonely, Nature, Adventure

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• I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Mistake, World, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Dec 07, 2011

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• Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Love, Farewell, Missing

  "Meditations Poetiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Responsibility, People

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview With Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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