World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
Others may recognise their world in 'Eat Sleep Work Repeat'. This podcast is the side project of Bruce Daisley, who works at Twitter. It consists of him talking to experts about what makes us happy at work and why.
The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by a guest from the world of books who brings along some overlooked gem to enthuse about.
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There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who endured such inconveniences as the Depression and the Second World War were porcelain compared to, say, Amy Schumer.
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.
It's the individual effort of everybody working together towards a collective goal that causes real, effective change in America and in the world.
Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and...
It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.
In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is...
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.
We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with the very real question of whether we can be sustainable on this planet - whether or...
The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a...
NASA, and all the other spacefaring nations of the world, have agreed to a set of 'planetary-protection' principles, aimed at preventing the accidental contamination of another habitable world with organisms from Earth.
The mature Anthropocene begins when we acquire the ability to live sustainably and become a lasting presence on this world.
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.
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Sports also make an appearance, with a line about how money now decides world championships more than loyalty does. See also Best Quotes and Life Quotes.
