Quotes About The World We Live In

#1. You have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow. - Author: Amy Tan

#2. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. - Author: Rachel Carson

#3. It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream. - Author: Kim Ki-duk

#4. I think in general, and in the film industry, that idea of having only one type of girl is changing. There's more variety because it's the world we live, and we want to portray that. - Author: Stephanie Sigman

#5. Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. ... We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed. - Author: Joan D. Chittister

#6. In the twenty-first century, building resilience is one of our most urgent social and economic issues because we live in a world that is defined by disruption. Not a month goes by that we don't see some kind of disturbance to the normal flow of life - Author: Judith Rodin

#7. I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money? - Author: Jose Saramago

#8. It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about. - Author: Keith Jarrett

#9. I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. - Author: Charles De Lint

#10. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we? - Author: Rick Danko

#11. I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on. - Author: Angelina Jolie

#12. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people. - Author: Alice Walker

#13. We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. - Author: Ulrich Beck

#14. Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon. - Author: Paul Fussell

#15. 17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened. - Author: Louise Gluck

#16. In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. - Author: Andre Breton

#17. Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had just run out. - Author: Alethea Black

#18. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. - Author: Jon Bon Jovi

#19. In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases. - Author: S. Jay Olshansky

#20. We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#21. We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. - Author: Jeremiah Wright

#22. We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. - Author: Elisabeth Elliot

#23. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. - Author: Socrates

#24. We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. - Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

#25. We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. - Author: Anthony Doerr

#26. This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.' - Author: Joel Edgerton

#27. My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch, and that we be conscious and sensorially attuned to this world in this moment that we are alive. - Author: Karim Rashid

#28. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. - Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

#29. And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us? - Author: Phil Robertson

#30. The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending. - Author: Chris Bowen

#31. Why were we born different? Why do we see the world how it actually is? Because we were meant to change the world, but not live in it. - Author: Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#32. A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in. - Author: Dylan Thomas

#33. Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in. - Author: Marie Brennan

#34. When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish. We want to build our own little nests, our own cocoons, so that we can live by ourselves in a secure way. - Author: Chogyam Trungpa

#35. We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - Author: John Guare

#36. We can't change the world overnight, Reesa. But we begin by changing the way we choose to live in it. - Author: Susan Carol McCarthy

#37. The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you're here. I figure the next one will take care of itself. - Author: Tom Spanbauer

#38. The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements. - Author: William Hazlitt

#39. Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#40. When we come to Christ, we're no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus. - Author: Billy Graham

#41. The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body. - Author: Antony Gormley

#42. Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity. - Author: Charlize Theron

#43. There are different kinds of love, Sarah. I feel one kind of love for your father. A special kind. Another kind for Warren. And still a different kind for you children.' She smiled at me. 'Heaven rue the day we can't feel love for one another. I wouldn't want to live in such a world, would you? - Author: Ann Rinaldi

#44. We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions. - Author: Larry Smith

#45. In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for those who live in the city, where the conditions of life, often feverish, leave little room for silence, reflection and relaxed contact with nature. - Author: Pope Benedict XVI

#46. It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there. - Author: Helen Bevington

#47. Nobody stops to think about the world anymore. We live in a world where they make
children pay to see the fish eat. Nowadays even fish are exploited, she thought. Exploited, and then poisoned. The ocean out there is filling up with poison. The fish will die too - Author: Julian Barnes

#48. We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable. - Author: Ana Castillo

#49. We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people. - Author: Eduardo Galeano

#50. If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that's not possible. It has to be to decide what kind of world do we as human beings want to live in. - Author: Richard Lewontin

#51. We are always ourselves, no matter where we go. That's what the poem is saying, I think. We have to recognize it, and make what we can here. This world, great as it is, is only just another biome we have to live in. - Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

#52. But here's the thing: other people's opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with Sharpies, yet those boxes are lies. They flatten us; they limit who we really are. Feminism - Author: Kelly Jensen

#53. The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in ... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work. - Author: Henning Mankell

#54. We do live best in this world when we keep the next in mind. - Author: Mark Dever

#55. Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world. - Author: Billy Graham

#56. The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore. - Author: Ross Lovegrove

#57. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are. - Author: RuPaul

#58. We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:
That South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#59. This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way. - Author: Jon Voight

#60. We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate. - Author: Seth Godin

#61. I am fairly tired
bored beyond endurance
by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him. - Author: Henry Adams

#62. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

#63. Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice. - Author: Lynn Schusterman

#64. We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it. - Author: Donald Miller

#65. Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both. - Author: Christian Wiman

#66. Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world. - Author: Mira Jacob

#67. We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is. - Author: Al Michaels

#68. Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes. - Author: James Chace

#69. Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be? - Author: Penny Matthews

#70. The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain. - Author: Olympia Dukakis

#71. The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us. - Author: Ralph Harper

#72. We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of. - Author: Thomas P. Campbell

#73. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. - Author: Frederick Buechner

#74. I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing. - Author: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#75. We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#76. The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time - - Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

#77. Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds. - Author: Luis Bunuel

#78. It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#79. Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture. - Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

#80. In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world. - Author: Sakyong Mipham

#81. There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy. - Author: Lisa Lucas

#82. There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets. - Author: Dambisa Moyo

#83. The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to live in that world. So plan for it. - Author: Ron Sims

#84. Humanity ... Let Us Pray For PEACE. Peace In Our World and Peace Deep With in Our Souls. Now May We Try And Live That PEACE Each Day. - Author: Timothy Pina

#85. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice? - Author: Simon Critchley

#86. Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in. - Author: Frances Moore Lappe

#87. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#88. While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this has to live in its own world. - Author: Jeph Loeb

#89. We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. - Author: Bryan Stevenson

#90. You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in. - Author: Lupe Fiasco

#91. I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is. - Author: Magda Apanowicz

#92. We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,
And all the live World's throbbing heart shall be
Once with our heart - Author: Oscar Wilde

#93. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible. - Author: Robert Krulwich

#94. A cotton-candy knockout, a strawberry sundae sweetheart, and a vanilla soft-serve misfit. We are the youth. And we live in a world where innocence is so short. - Author: YellowBella

#95. So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature. - Author: David Suzuki

#96. I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy. - Author: Roger Deakins

#97. The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#98. It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control. - Author: Surya Das

#99. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation. - Author: Des Browne

#100. We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies. - Author: Paulo Coelho