Quotes About World

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's body with the pain of the world's body.

and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.

There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.

I used to write songs that were deeply personal, but since I am becoming so passionate about the world around me, that passion and drive is starting to come into my work.

I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.

What Mr Rogers was offering to children were lessons we all need in our world right now: patience, kindness, acceptance and true self-reflection.

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.