This World Quotes - Page 23

• No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Growth, Doe, World

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Blood

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

  Richard Bach

  Book, Thinking, World

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.

  Richard Bach

  Flower, Garden, World

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

  Robert Frost

  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

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• Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

  Jason Mraz

  Mean, Wake Up, World

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Identity

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Loss

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.

  Philip Pullman

  Light, Darkness, Mind

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not only does that person have to apologize; sometimes they have to go away forever. Go away, bad person. My analysis of this is that most of us don't do anything decent in our life. I'm not saying we're evil. I'm just saying we don't make a contribution, so the way they [liberals] think they're making a contribution is to point at the bad people [which] is somehow even more pathetic.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.

  Debbie Macomber

  Struggle, Writing, Long

  Source: bookpage.com

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• If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

  Herbert Hainer

  Country, People, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Trying, Doe, World

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Interesting, Community

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, America, People

  CNN Reagan Library Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 16, 2015.

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• You can do pretty much anything you want in this world, and it's not all that difficult - you just have to ignore the people who tell you that you need to go this way, and it's the only way.

  Aaron Rose

  People, Needs, World

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for them. They gave me a job as a dishwasher (Colin laughs). For me that was a joy because I had a foot in the door of this world class restaurant. Just being around the buzz and the pots and pans and the wonderful food and all this produce that was coming in, that was the start of Paul Rankin the chef.

  Paul Rankin

  Jobs, Feet, Doors

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested me. I loved the idea of working in different countries. And I loved the idea of construction and working with imagery. But, yes, I fell into fashion a bit by mistake.

  Christopher Bailey

  Country, Fashion, Mistake

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A man in this world must solve a problem: to be with Christ, or to be against Him. And every man decides this, whether he wants to or not. He will either be a lover of Christ or a fighter of Christ. There is no third option.

  Justin Popovic

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Religious, Judging

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• All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Real

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• I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

  Peter King

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• The sense of being alone is a huge issue for so many people in this world. As a worshipper of Jesus, there's a very real sense that we are always seen, held and known.

  Matt Redman

  Jesus, Real, Issues

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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