Quotes about the world
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“America is the police department for a World Zionist government”
Revolution by Number
“If we stop fighting, terrorism will spread all over the world.”
As quoted in Massoud's Smile https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBR8V8YWEAI9OWu?format=jpg, by Hiromi Nagakura
"‘Soccer Mom’ Alex Morgan Back And Looking For Gold In Tokyo" https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/July/08/Soccer-Mom-Alex-Morgan-Back-And-Looking-For-Gold-In-Tokyo (July 8, 2021)
“The world will be such a lonely place whenever I decide to leave it.”
Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 428
“I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes.”
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Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)
Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)
Source: 1980 to Roy Jenkins < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHk9zoG6PXw
“The world is whatever you say it is if you know how to say it right.”
“Don't believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
Misattributed
Source: Often attributed to Twain, but sourced to Robert J. Burdette, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/06/world-owes/
Source: Letter to Friedrich Engels (8 October 1858), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 40. Letters 1856–59 (2010), pp. 346–347
“God died and His death was the life of the world.”
Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Physik, § 38 ISBN 978-1494963262
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“When we say that “the world has ended,” remember—it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine.”
Prologue “me, when I was I” (p. 2)
The Stone Sky (2017)
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
Sometimes it doesn’t fit with the cast or the energy of the scene or the beat of another character. But to sit down in the audience and go: “Oh my God, I think that was what I intended”, was great.
"Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I loved not being a people-pleaser’" in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/17/benedict-cumberbatch-i-loved-not-being-a-people-pleaser (17 December 2021)
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (2022) cited in " Somalia Elects New President, but Terrorists Hold True Power https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/world/africa/somalia-election-president.html" on The New York Times, 15 May 2022.
“Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”
quoted in [LifeSite, The heart of the Catholic Church's current crisis is the abandonment of law and doctrine - LifeSite, 2022-06-07, 2022-05-05, https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-heart-of-the-catholic-churchs-current-crisis-is-the-abandonment-of-law-and-doctrine/]
Variant versions:
I see the world is rotten because of silence … speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills. (quoted at 0:23 of [Randall Terry, The Silence That Kills, 2022-06-07, 2020-10-19, 23:29, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2ncPIgui0])
Original Italian: Oimé, non più tacere! Gridate con centomiglia di lingue. Veggo che, per lo tacere, el mondo è guasto, la Sposa di Cristo è impalidita ( Lettera 16, "A uno grande prelato" http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/eki.htm#q)
lit.: "O alas, be silent no more! Shout with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that, through silence, the world is broken, the Bride of Christ is impaled"
Music lyrics, Great Deep (2021) —"Linger"
"In the Palm Sunday Mass, Pope Francis pushes for peace in Ukraine" in NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/04/10/1091929949/palm-sunday-pope-francis-ukraine (10 April 2022)
2020s, 2022
2022, Make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of this evil on earth (3 April 2022)
“The surrounding world is different for each of us, despite moving in a common world”
Pedro Fernando, Book Train To Save The World (2022) - (PAULO FERNANDO FAZENDA MANUEL)
Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 30
Interview https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/20/what-are-the-prospects-for-peace-an-interview-with-abby-martin/ with Counterpunch (2021)
“That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.”
Context: Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for
“Imperfections make us unique in the world.”
Original: Le imperfezioni ci rendono unici al mondo.
Source: prevale.net
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 37 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
According to Ruskin scholar George P. Landow, there is no evidence that this quotation or its variants can be found in any of Ruskin's works.
[Landow, George P., A Ruskin Quotation?, VictorianWeb.org, 2007-07-27, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/quotation.html, 2013-01-07]
Disputed
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
Source: The World According to Garp, ch. 19
The Tatler No. 63 (September 1709)
“The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.”
“Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God”
“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
“You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
“Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.”
Source: The Zahir
“Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.”
Source: A Frolic of His Own