This World Quotes - Page 21

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

François-René de Chateaubriand

Love, Life, Friendship

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Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,
For what is in this world but grief and woe?

William Shakespeare

Grief, World, Woe

William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.507

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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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We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

James Turrell

Reality, World, Particular

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver. We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.

Jeb Bush

Believe, Issues, Broken

"Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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This world is going in all sorts of directions, but I think all you can do is get people to think about things in a different way, because sometimes people aren't even thinking.

Jillian Hervey

Thinking, People, Different

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I hope to evoke emotion in others, help them escape for even just a little while into different worlds, different times and different thoughts. Whenever I'm able to lend my name to worthy causes and try and change this world for the better I feel like my work is a success.

James Preston Rogers

Names, Trying, Able

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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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The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

Jack LaLanne

Exercise, Goal, Challenges

Source: www.peacelovelunges.com

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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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There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

Wayne Dyer

Past, World, Moments

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There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.

Djimon Hounsou

Growing Up, Real, Distance

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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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One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only supposed to be one God.

Ozzy Osbourne

Doe, World, One Thing

Source: jontrott.com

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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 have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

Assata Shakur

Years, Opposites, People

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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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Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.

Halsey

Artist, Opposites, Ideas

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.

Steve Irwin

Country, Struggle, Done

Source: www.reptilesmagazine.com

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A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.

Steve Irwin

Jobs, Nice, Animal

Source: www.reptilesmagazine.com

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