Quotes with world-view

Quotes 821 till 840 of 3096.

  • Bryan Singer I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • David Malouf I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives.
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oscar Wilde I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • James Baldwin I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anita Diamant I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Maya Angelou I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Blaise Pascal I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, Children, you must no make so much noise, that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Richard Dawkins I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • A. J. McLean I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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