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Quotes About World

It's almost too perfect - the poster girl for an illness in the early days of photography sees the world in black and white.
~ Siri Hustvedt
and she, in turn, had cast a spell over the art world through the magic of controversy.
~ Siri Hustvedt
James believed in the power of art, not because he thought it would change the world or because he imagined it could be a mirror of life. Art, he explains to Wells, is "for the extension of life, which is the novel's best gift.
~ Siri Hustvedt
the idea of "extension" makes sense to me because art and the world can't be as easily divided as we sometimes imagine. One comes from the other, and they intermingle in the consciousness we as readers meet on the page. Art can and does make life, as James says, because when we encounter a great work of art if creates feeling, and that feeling in the reader, the viewer, or the listener is finally what the work means.
~ Siri Hustvedt
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
~ William Shakespeare
Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.
~ Lester Levenson
How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
~ Patti Smith
The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
~ Paul McCartney
When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
~ Oprah Winfrey
Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.
~ Robbie Coltraine
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
~ Henry Adams
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
~ J. G. Holland
It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.
~ Jack Kerouac
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime
With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.
~ Don Bluth
People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.
~ Andy Dick
I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do
~ Alvin Lee
The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
~ Marianne Williamson
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.
~ Anthony Burgess