Our World Quotes - Page 4

• I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, Suits, Tradition

  "Cameron Diaz In Maxim Hot 100: Marriage Is Dead", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2011.

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• What we imagine in our minds becomes our world.

  Masaru Emoto

  Mind, World, Imagine

  Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact - and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Communication, Ideas, Voice

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• Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

  Betty Williams

  Children, Government, Answers

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• I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Perception, Population

  The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (2002). “An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.

  Gail Sheehy

  Feel Better, Self, Important

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• There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

  Bianca Jagger

  Rights, Law, Differences

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• Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

  Jim Tully

  Sin, Brutal, Contempt

  Jim Tully (1927). “Circus Parade”

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• We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.

  Karl Edward Wagner

  Prayer, Soul, Everyday

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• I know my little 'dirty drawings' are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if - I would like to say 'when,' but I better say 'if' - our world learns to accept all the different ways of loving. Then maybe I could have a place in one of the smaller side rooms.

  Tom of Finland

  Nice, Dirty, Drawing

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• I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.

  Ed Kashi

  Believe, Passion, Issues

  "Vital oil: photographer Ed Kashi captures Nigeria's toxic legacy" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Running, Hero, Character

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Thinking, Today, Looks

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• Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Home, Commitment, Founding

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever

  John Gummer

  Future, Waiting, Forever

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• Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

  Michael Meacher

  Children, Future, Vision

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Symphony, Silence, Simplicity

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

  Christopher Okigbo

  World

  Christopher Okigbo (1986). “Collected poems”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Different, Earth, Shapes

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

  Carl Jung

  Upheaval, World, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document, back through the years, his contributions to the science of our world society remain invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the shapers of humanity’s richest present and future.

  Paul Robeson

  Years, Humanity, Modern Life

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

  Le Corbusier

  House, World

  Le Corbusier (2013). “The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning”, p.244, Courier Corporation

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• So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

  George W. Bush

  Goal, Support, Growth

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.

  Robert James Waller

  Country, Men, Problem

  Robert James Waller (1990). “One good road is enough: essays”, Wiley-Blackwell

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• We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

  Anais Nin

  Lonely, Writing, Journey

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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