In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world
filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with
despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with
distrust, we must still dare to believe.
-Michael Jackson
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be
full of magic. (In a letter to his new grandchild, published in his
Sunday Times column (July 5, 1987))
-Godrey Smith
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to
conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
-Bruce
Sterling
In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more
people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual
are also malleable.
-Dean Koontz
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set
of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone
for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is
learning how to learn.
-John Naisbitt
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be
expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
-Rex Stout
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
-David
Mamet
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You
cannot unmask a mask.
-G.K. Chesterton
In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to
have personal chaos.
-Thomas Armstrong
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except
thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of
illusion.
-Alan Watts
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that
we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is
how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.
-Dave Barry
As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where it's going out
of style.
-Raymond Chandler
At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between
right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong
prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to
be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
-Stephen Ambrose
Every day I am asked to be a magician in a world where magic doesn't
exist. (posting on postsecret.blogspot.com)
-Variously attributed
Here we are living in a world of 'identity crises,' and most of us have
no idea what an identity is.
-Madeleine L'Engle
Humor in a world of waning beliefs remains like Hope still left at the
bottom of Pandora's box when all the evils of the Gods flew out from it
upon the world.
-Stephen Leacock
Hunger is inexcusable in a world where grain rots in silos and butter
turns rancid while being held for favorable commodity indices.
-Frank
Sinatra
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the
depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is
increasingly less pleasing to the eye.
-Lady Bird Johnson
I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world
that is worse than when we entered it.
-Daniel Berrigan
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a
light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
-Carrie
Fisher
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
-Harry
Emerson Fosdick
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.
The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no
longer exists.
-Eric Hoffer
Living in a world that worships swiftness and success no longer means
living in a world of new things. Rather it means living in a world of
old things; of things that very swiftly grow old.
-G.K. Chesterton
Man lives in a world of meaning.
-George Herbert Mead
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
-John
Dewey
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all
rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts,
where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the
secret of life?
-Henri Frédéric Amiel
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated
people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
-Joyce
Carey
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.
-Anaïs
Nin
Of what use is a titanic intellect in a world full of icebergs?
-Variously
attributed
Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living
in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of a living Hell.
-Harlan
Ellison
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. If
America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under
people who hate us?
-Jon Stewart
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a
practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the
profit out of war.
-Richard M. Nixon
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might
have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of
its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
-William
J. Brennan, Jr.
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now
takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can
replace it.
-Roger Nash Baldwin
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you
somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to
fight. Never stop fighting.
-E.E. Cummings
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you
something else is the greatest accomplishment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world
where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the
pimp.
-E.M. Forster
Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral
disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis
for policy than reality.
-Theodore Dalrymple
We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
-Ronald
Reagan
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to
youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20
are no longer true at 40- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been
discovered when he was 20?
-Arthur C. Clarke
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
-Martin
L. Gross
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy
to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my
problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider
those people my heroes.
-Fred Rogers
We live in a world where emissions from our refrigerators have caused
the ozone layer to evaporate and we'll get skin cancer if we sunbathe.
If that's not a science fiction scenario, I don't know what is.
-William
Gibson
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us,
there for the noticing.
-Ira Glass
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power,
intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it
can be a dreadful, destructive force.
-Mary McLeod Bethune
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
-Nate Silver
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid
surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies,
the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who
would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
-Rachel
Carson
You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and
the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
-Andrew
Grove
Categories: In a world..., Quotes of the day, Quotes on a topic
KGB Stuff Commentwear E-Mail KGB
Donate via PayPal
