World Events Quotes

• If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hopeful, Events, Looks

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Children, Events

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Reality, Impact, House

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• Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

  Mark Haddon

  Years, Two, World

  "I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

  Chris Terrio

  Media, Iran, Play

  "Yahoo! Original: ‘Argo’ writer Chris Terrio talks Ben Affleck, blue Wookies and ‘Breaking Bad’". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013.

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• World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

  Denis Healey

  Money, Issues, Political

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• Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Blue, Events

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• OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.

  Billy Graham

  Moving, Inspiration, July

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• If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Media, Challenges, Age

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

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• My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

  Lisa Ling

  Events, World, Levels

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• There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

  Esther Hicks

  Law, Kitchen, Important

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• It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

  Richard Curtis

  Mistake, Moving, Keys

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• People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.

  Nick Thune

  Writing, Night, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Animal, Insightful, Events

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• Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

  Richie Havens

  War, Phones, August

  "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

  Vera Brittain

  Humanity, Events, World

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• When I declared my candidacy, I knew what bad shape America was in. And believe me all you have to do is look at world events. All you have to do is look at the $1.7 billion that we sent to Iran in cash. In cash. All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Isis, Iran

  Source: time.com

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• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  L.A. Reid

  World, Shapes, Events

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• People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

  David Frum

  Knowing, People, Important

  "David Frum Bashes Fox News Viewers: End Up 'Knowing A Lot Less About Important World Events'". CNN Interview, www.newsbusters.org. December 12, 2011.

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• Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Events, Passionate, World

  "Liberty, Justice, and Freedom of Information for All" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

  Gore Vidal

  Events, World, Individual

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Perspective, Events

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Real, Character, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Children, Book, Vocabulary

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• The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.

  Paul Azinger

  Winning, Player, Events

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