World Quotes - Page 511

I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

There is too little courtship in the world.

What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.