This World Quotes - Page 39

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

Stanley Cavell

Photography, Long, Wish

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Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.

Sam Smith

Jesus, Men, Done

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When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.

Richard Allen Epstein

Regret, Believe, Order

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It's so hard sometimes, living in this world. But I know from experience, it can always get better if you're willing to ask for help.

Chris French

Get Better, World, Helping

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Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.

Mark Klett

Photography, Art, Museums

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In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change.

Mark Klett

Past, Important, World

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Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.

Loretta Lux

Children, Garden, Self

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After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.

Burk Uzzle

Philosophical, Years, Trying

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It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe, Men, Light

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I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Dolly Parton

Light, World, Want

"Dolly Parton: America has lost its 'morals, principles and values'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2012.

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There are some loony people in this world!

Dolly Parton

People, World

"Q&A: Dolly Parton". Interview with Jerry Nunn, www.outandaboutnashville.com. July 5, 2011.

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I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

Garth Brooks

World, Matter, Never Change

Song: Change, The, Album: Fresh Horses, 1995

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A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.

Doug Ferguson

Believe, World, Emotion

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All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

Ignatius of Loyola

Mean, World, Gift From God

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Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Inability, World, Force

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Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what freedom represents, hates the fact that we fight for freedom worldwide, hates our prosperity, hates our way of life? Have we been unwilling to face that very difficult reality?

Sean Hannity

Hate, Fighting, Reality

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The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.

Marcel Proust

Journey, Years, Ties

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.212, Modern Library

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Life is a wonderful teacher who teaches us every lesson about how to survive in this world.

Wiz Khalifa

Teacher, World, Lessons

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If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.

Woodrow M. Kroll

Hands, Mind, World

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Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

Ryan Winfield

World, Spirit, Change For The Better

Ryan Winfield (2014). “Jane's Melody: A Novel”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

Robert Baden-Powell

Feelings, Trying, Done

Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.

Richard Bandler

World, Kind, Better Place

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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Anne Bronte

Book, World, Great Book

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The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

Tony Campolo

Christian, Jesus, Biblical

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One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

Mark Driscoll

Jesus, Pain, Reading

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