Top 100 The Outside World Quotes
#1. Boundaries are important. And not only because they keep the wolves out and the sheep in. They determine how much interaction there can be between one thing and another, and how much exposure something local might have to the outside world.
Anonymous
#2. The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
Marian Wright Edelman
#3. I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
Peter Higgs
#4. You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.
Carson Palmer
#5. I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.
Emma Donoghue
#6. Vinny rarely leaves the house so when she does it's an occasion of some importance to her. She spends a lot of time looking forward to a glimpse of the outside world and then, when she returns, even more time complaining about it.
Kate Atkinson
#7. I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
Iman
#8. In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
Raymond Carver
#9. Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.
Frederick Lenz
#10. The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.
David Novak
#11. I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.
Kyle Kinane
#12. We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
Seth Godin
#13. Boys often need us to give them more time than girls need, and they often need us to connect their feelings to objects in the outside world.
Michael Gurian
#14. I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.
Tony Judt
#15. Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not ... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.
Robin Williams
#16. To the outside world kinky people like us are always considered crazy. I think we're actually healthier, of course there's a few that are nuts but hey those normal people have their psychos too!
S.L. Walker
#17. One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
Barbara Demick
#18. It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the outside world. The printed word evokes the modern notion of security, with the emphasis on detachment, privacy, autonomy, predictability, and enclosed artificiality.
Jeremy Rifkin
#19. The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us
Carl Jung
#20. O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah (swt) calls al-nafs al mutmaina (the reassured soul). (Qur'an 89:27) The soul that Allah (swt) calls back saying:
Yasmin Mogahed
#21. We're going to explore the outside world someday, right? Far beyond these walls, there's flaming water, land made of ice, and fields of sand spread wide. It's the world my parents wanted to go to.
Hajime Isayama
#22. There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#23. Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
Steven Johnson
#24. Happiness is a choice. Don't let the outside world choose it for you.
Frederick Espiritu
#25. When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.
Adrian Tomine
#27. When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.
Roger Ross Williams
#28. The outside world is what kept Buffy and Angel from being together.
Jane Espenson
#29. Husbands were all too often the back door by which secrets escaped into the outside world.
Stephen King
#30. And then he remembered that in the outside world, no one had to unlock a door before he entered
Jodi Picoult
#32. The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.
Peter Gabriel
#33. I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
John Keegan
#34. I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.
Terry Francona
#35. The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.
Muriel Box
#36. There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?
Margaret Mahy
#37. All that remained was the curiosity of it all. The wonder of the outside world beyond the veil of lies.
Hugh Howey
#38. Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.
John Schlesinger
#39. The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
Austin Kleon
#40. Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.
Rachael Yamagata
#41. My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.
Carrie Underwood
#42. The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.
Sydney J. Harris
#43. Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#44. I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.
Rebecca Solnit
#45. The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
Luis Valdez
#46. When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
#47. We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.
Carly Simon
#49. So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
Scott Anderson
#50. The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
Bryant H. McGill
#51. We are all rich in mind, we just have to exert a little more pressure to ourselves in order to expose our wealthiness to the outside world
Mojela Malelu
#52. ... it was as if she'd shut out the outside world.
No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.
Asa Larsson
#53. There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
Hanoi Hannah
#54. But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
Alberto Manguel
#55. Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.
John Desmond Bernal
#56. There comes a point in most cases - and by no means only those in which Hercule Poirot has involved himself - when one starts to feel that it would be a greater comfort, and actually no less effective, to talk only to oneself and dispense with all attempts to communicate with the outside world.
Sophie Hannah
#57. We can create a labyrinth of faulty analysis and decision making as we try to connect the outside world to our inside selves.
Elaina Marie
#58. You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.
Anne Bishop
#59. If your going to be a jackass then do it outside of your home, as your home is supposed to be a place of love and safety, it's your sanctuary from the outside world. The only place where we can truly be accepted.
Lisa Marie Main
#60. Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you.
Zac Posen
#61. From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.
Mieczyslaw Jastrun
#62. Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.
David Eagleman
#63. We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.
Dawn Fraser
#64. Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.
Louise Penny
#65. I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.
Saoirse Ronan
#66. Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#67. The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
Julian Baggini
#68. Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions.
Chuck Palahniuk
#69. I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.
Stanley R. Jaffe
#70. In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
#71. Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.
John Maynard Keynes
#72. Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China.. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.
Bill Gates
#73. If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
Lloyd Alexander
#74. I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.
Daryl Hall
#75. In the last year I have come to understand the traitorous nature of skin. We cannot live without this barrier between our beating hearts and the outside world, yet it is the most fragile of things, as well as the most deceptive.
Sarah Fine
#76. The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.
Keith Johnstone
#77. Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette Davis
#78. New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me forever ... The moment I saw the brilliant, proud morning shine high up over the deserts of Santa Fe, something stood still in my soul, and I started to attend.
D.H. Lawrence
#79. When he came home, my father swooped me up in his arms. I could feel the cold of the outside world against his one-day growth of beard.
Anonymous
#80. So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation.
Anonymous
#81. If I'm going to be working out here in a place that at least feels like the middle of nowhere, I'm going to need access to the outside world. It's important to have access. Solitude is one thing, but you could turn into the Unabomber if you don't have some connection to people.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#82. The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true-love hearts.
Sarah Addison Allen
#83. True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.
Jimmy Breslin
#84. The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.
Marilyn Monroe
#85. My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it ... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.
Kevin Wilson
#86. I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.
Emily Rios
#87. Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they're relevant.
Trent Reznor
#88. The wise parent lets the child's world teach him the lessons of life and then empathizes with his pain. Then he learns to respect the outside world's limits as well as his parents
Henry Cloud
#89. So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world.
Franz Schubert
#91. The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
Bette Midler
#92. Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.
Constance Wu
#93. Imagine an organization where the physical plant honors the mission, celebrates the employees, shares information, holds people accountable, shapes the outside world's view and helps drive performance. That would be an organization which uses visual management.
Stewart Liff
#94. I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
Chuck Palahniuk
#95. When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.
Deepak Chopra
#96. People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.
Claire Danes
#97. Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
Anna Lee
#98. Riding back from the grocery store, I realized my father was two men - one he presented to the outside world, and one, far darker, that was always there, behind the face everybody else saw. In my bedroom late that
Augusten Burroughs
#99. People in the outside world said something stupid with their every breath, and when they didn't talk their radios filled the gap with the copied voices of people singing the same songs over and over.
Chuck Palahniuk
#100. I did love Kolkata as a mysterious woman, the beloved, my mother ... I dont the outside world, my world is Kolkata ... I do want to live, but Im certain that the death of Kolkata will bring my end
Sukanta Bhattacharya
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