World Life Quotes - Page 2

• The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

  Craig Reucassel

  Media, Firsts, Stories

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• The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Unique, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

  Richard Livingstone

  Education, Growing Up, Creative

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• Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

  Antonin Artaud

  Soul, World, Rotting

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school. [...] I'd still relish this moment, killing you.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Selfish, Stupid

  "Fallen: Angels in the Dark". Book by Lauren Kate, December 10, 2013.

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• You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Relationship, Family, Smile

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 04, 2015

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• Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

  Wendell Berry

  World, Speech, Let Me

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.23, Counterpoint

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• The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Media, Expression

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• That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Spiritual, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

  Abdul Kalam

  Development, Unrest, Half

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• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Stars, Night

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 99

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• There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the level of their subjectivity. The idea of subjective commitment is at the core of ethics, something that divides the self from itself. I become an ethical self. I cannot meet that ideal, I cannot fulfill it, it divides me from myself and it makes me strive harder. This ideal subjective ethical drive is at the heart of an absolutely earnest, radical politics that insists that people will be able to engage with each other, and they're lifted from irony at that point.

  Simon Critchley

  Distance, Commitment, Heart

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• A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.

  Echo Bodine

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Economic Models, America, What If

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

  Kenny Loggins

  Brave New World, Passages, Rite

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

  Frederick Lenz

  Tired, People, Suffering

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• You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Anxiety, World

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• It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ambition, Suffering, Ambitious

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Color, Effort

  Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

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• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Reflection, Psychics

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• In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

  Richard Yates

  Goal, World, Fields

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• Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Fire

  "The Portable Steinbeck: 2".

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• Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Men, Soul

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