Quotes About World Getting Smaller

#1. I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#3. I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever.
But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#4. Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.

Robert Kennedy

#5. The more you think you're entitled to, the less you will be grateful for. The bigger the sense of entitlement, the smaller the sense of gratitude. We wonder why in our world we keep getting more and more and more and keep being less and less and less grateful.

John Ortberg

#6. The world isn't getting smaller. People fly from place to place, take shuttles or taxis to hotels, stay in all-inclusive resorts. Have Skype Meetings. They don't really experience the world, and barely experience parts of it.

Andrew Pain

#7. The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#8. I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

Max Beesley

#9. Here's the deal: The more you think you're entitled to, the less you will be grateful for. The bigger the sense of entitlement, the smaller the sense of gratitude. We wonder why in our world we keep getting more and more and more and keep being less and less and less grateful. This is precisely why.

John Ortberg

#10. Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.

Naomi Jackson

#11. I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all.

Mark Strand

#12. The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.

Wayne Rogers

#13. The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

Hamid Karzai

#14. And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

Plato

#15. Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

Felix Dennis

#16. If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Edith Piaf

#17. What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

#18. You can't be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn't make you a person of faith ... , that makes you a schizophrenic.

Bill Maher