World We Live In Quotes

#1. Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in both private and in public, take on life or death and collectively create the world we live in.

Mac MacKenzie

#2. We are not preparing for the world we live in - we are preparing for the world we find ourselves in.

Michael Mabee

#3. In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

Zoe Kravitz

#4. By travelling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.

Andrew James Pritchard

#5. The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#6. It doesn't matter what kind of world we live in as long as we have each other.

Walter Wykes

#7. When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

Wallace Shawn

#8. The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.

Oriah Dreamer

#9. Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Julie Christie

#10. America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

Fred Thompson

#11. The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

Mohammed Hanif

#12. Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#13. When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

Daniel Greenberg

#14. That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

Frederik Pohl

#15. However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

Robert Winston

#16. For the ones whose childhood was stolen. No matter your age, it's never too late to steal it back. Believe in the unbelievable, because this world we live in is magic.

L. H. Cosway

#17. Because we live in a democracy, and the people can't govern themselves well if they don't know the truth about the world we live in. What if our rich citizens never hear of the poverty and suffering of the rest of the city? Why should they ever give to charity or vote for reform?

Rosslyn Elliott

#18. I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

Edmund Burke

#19. We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.

Sharon Gannon

#20. All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.

Billy Corgan

#21. I don't know. It's the world we live in, I guess. Some things will never be fair.

S. Walden

#22. But you know exactly what kind of world we live in. It ain't no fucking Middle-earth.

Junot Diaz

#23. Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve?

Herman Melville

#24. Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Robertson Davies

#25. In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

Zack Wamp

#26. In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

Daniel Greenberg

#27. The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

Harold S. Kushner

#28. Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

Michael Dowd

#29. puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We

Daniel Kahneman

#30. The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

Anthony Robbins

#31. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse.

Paulo Coelho

#32. What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

David S.Goyer

#33. Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Henry Moore

#34. From a moral standpoint, the world we live in is complex, becoming increasingly grayer than black and white...

Chris Rhyss Edwards

#35. And the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Paulo Coelho

#36. We live in a very inspirational point in time. Things are progressing faster and further than ever before. What inspires me most is the world we live in adapting at such a rapid rate.

Dillon Lane

#37. In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

C. B. Van Niel

#38. What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

Simon Barnes

#39. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary

#40. Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot - about the world we live in, and about our own past.

Brian Christian

#41. The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.

George W. Bush

#42. I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Tony Blair

#43. I feel clobbered by the impossibility of translating into words as much of this enormous world we live in with its subtly complex and sprawling Periodic Table of emotions. To quote Freddie Mercury, I want it all.

David Mitchell

#44. I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

Dwight Yoakam

#45. None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Harold S. Kushner

#46. We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.

Elan Mastai

#47. It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Glenda Jackson

#48. We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.

Wislawa Szymborska

#49. Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

Andrew Zimmern

#50. I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.

Alexander Stille

#51. To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

Phoebe Philo

#52. We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.

Adam Haslett

#53. Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Jane Rule

#54. What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully and to be completely present is the ultimate enterprise.

Dianna Agron

#55. Sometimes the world we live in is a truly weird place.

Stephen King

#56. I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Godfrey Reggio

#57. Our manifest image, unlike the daisy's ontology or Umwelt, really is manifest, really is subjective in a strong sense. It's the world we live in, the world according to us.

Daniel C. Dennett

#58. [..] when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather worryingly, of almost nothing and that whenever we do find something it turns out not to actually something, but only the probability that there may something there.

Douglas Adams

#59. Hell of a world we live in, huh? ( ... ) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

William Gibson

#60. The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.

Deborah Eisenberg

#61. What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

Chuck Palahniuk

#62. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

Michael Jackson

#63. Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

Daisy Bates

#64. It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Alex Lowe

#65. This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate.

Chuck Palahniuk

#66. There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

Tariq Ali

#67. Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Thomas Paine

#68. My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.

John McAfee

#69. We are narrative creatures, and stories render the world apprehensible. Narrative tells us about the world we live in and our place within it.

Joseph Laycock

#70. Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

Peter Kingsley

#71. What a strange world we live in ... Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

Lewis Carroll

#72. It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.

Staceyann Chin

#73. If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

Steven Erikson

#74. We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

Adam Hamilton

#75. [T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Albert Cossery

#76. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Sarah Dessen

#77. to make science the arbiter of metaphysics is to banish not only God from the world but also love, hate, meaning - to consider a world that is self-evidently not the world we live in. That

Paul Kalanithi

#78. An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in -
of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon.

Sreesha Divakaran

#79. Life isn't easy. Would that every story ended happily, every crisis be averted, everything get a pretty shiny bow, but that's not the world we live in. Life is harsh. Things go wrong, People get hurt, and some even die. That's just the way it goes.

Daniel Younger

#80. Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

Justine Larbalestier

#81. It's a movie about everything. This world we live in. The bodies we're stuck with. The lives we get whether we want them or not. How hard you have to work just to get through a fucking day without killing yourself.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#82. We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

Sandra Bullock

#83. We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

Salman Rushdie

#84. It's Hard to order just a black coffee these days. That's the kind of miserable world we live in.

Andrew Barger

#85. It is so simple: the choices we make in our everyday lives, the things we do (or not) for others, define the world we live in.

Bernard Jan

#86. If you really want to see something scary, turn on the nightly news. To me, for people to say 'look at the films' is ludicrous. The world we live in needs to change.

Brett Cullen

#87. The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

Pope Francis

#88. I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.

Jay Neugeboren

#89. We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

Julia Cameron

#90. Quite some years ago, I started travelling the planet. I thought this would learn me something about the world we live in. I was wrong ... It learned me something about myself. It changed me. And nothing will ever again be black-and-white again.

Maarten Schafer

#91. In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Haruki Murakami

#92. It is not about sexuality that is important to most people who care, it is what we do for our community and our family, our friends and just human compassion for others that matter in the world we live in daily.

Lisa Stone

#93. It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.

Robert Irwin

#94. Why does a father have to protect his son?" I thought for a moment before answering. "Look," I said as I stroked his cheek, "the world we live in can sometimes be very tough. And it's only fair that everyone who's born into it should have at least one person who'll be there to protect him.

Etgar Keret

#95. Anyway, in the end, I don't really believe in Heaven at all and i don't believe in perfect angles. I think that this might be the only Heaven there can possibly be, this world we live in now, but we haven't quite realized it yet.

David Almond

#96. Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness

Harvey Cox

#97. We all are now very aware of what a connected world we live in - connected to each other and to the earth that gives us everything we have. We need all countries and companies to step up and play their part - setting strong goals, having clear plans, and openly demonstrating progress.

Richard Branson

#98. That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

Frederik Pohl

#99. I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

P.J. Harvey

#100. 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.

Mira Jacob