This World Quotes - Page 31

• We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sex, Children, Struggle

  "Speak' author: 'We as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2014.

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• I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.

  Philip K. Dick

  Powerful, Book, Writing

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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Lying, Hate, Moving

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• To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Mean, Rejection

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• I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

  John Burroughs

  Home, Use, World

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• If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Men, World

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

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• Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, Irrational

  An Ideal Husband act 1 (1895)

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• Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...

  Robert Kennedy

  Adventure, Yield, Imagination

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Ideas, Delight

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.86

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• If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

  Joseph Campbell

  World, Want, Helping

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.59, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• People in this world are not often logical.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, World, Logical

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• People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

  Clay Guida

  Wrestling, Swinging For The Fences, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil in this world. And ISIS, make no mistake about it, is an evil in this world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, America, Isis

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

  Julian Assange

  World, Knows, Nothing New

  "Inside WikiLeaks". Interview with Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. August 1, 2010.

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• I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

  Juan Pablo Di Pace

  Thinking, And Love, Elements

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles, the inflation is the highest in this world.

  Thomas Mapfumo

  Country, Zimbabwe, World

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• This world's a tough place to live in and you have to have something to fall back on.

  David Ragan

  Fall, World, Tough

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

  Matt Diaz

  Baseball, Careers, League

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons - these men and women - rose up and formed the new society. It's a feudal world, a part feudal barons and part warlord and part mob boss and they each control a huge resource so that there's an uneasy alliance, but they all need each other.

  Alfred Gough

  Dark, Men, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are overdone and stuffy. That was what lead us to explore that area of science fiction and future, a world we can create and control.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Kings, Fighting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.

  Miles Millar

  Wall, Past, Talking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

  Miles Millar

  Technology, Challenges, Asian

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We are going to be able to defeat ISIS on the ground there, as well as in this world, because of the Muslim Americans in our country and throughout the world who understand that this brutal and barbaric group is perverting the name of a great world religion.

  Martin O'Malley

  Country, Names, Isis

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Honesty, Powerful, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.42

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• Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Differences, Meditation

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99, Xist Publishing

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