I Quotes
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“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly. Once, after my fourteenth birthday, crouched between the seats of an abandoned school bus in the woods, I filled my life with a line of cocaine. A white letter “I” glowed on the seat’s peeling leather. Inside me the “I” became a switchblade— and something tore. My stomach forced up but it was too late. In minutes, I became more of myself. Which is to say the monstrous part of me got so large, so familiar, I could want it. I could kiss it.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“In a world obsessed with borders, I found my home not in places, but in the spaces between them, where cultures converge and identities blur.”
Source: The Invisible Third Culture Adult
“In a world obsessed with fleeting riches, I choose to forge a legacy that endures beyond the allure of lucre.”
“In a world obsessed with having the correct answers, the real competitive advantage might come from asking better questions.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“In a world of algorithmic optimization, the radical act is presence without progress.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.”
“In a world of animals one who is human has more haters than admirers.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.”
“In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.”
“In a world of bosses, you are your own master”
“In a world of boys, he's a gentleman.”
“In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.”
“In a world of ceaseless labor, we are components of the Engine. Eternally struggling, pushing a Sisyphean Boulder in vain. Illusions are the keys that unlock the Doors and keep us moving on.”
Source: A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms
“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?”
Source: Foe
“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)”
Source: Foe: A Novel
“In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is bereaved at the passing of dear familiar things. Yet much as we may deplore the lack of stability in all earthly things, in a fallen world such as this the very ability to change is a golden treasure, a gift from God of such fabulous worth as to call for constant thanksgiving. For human beings the whole possibility of redemption lies in their ability to change. To move across from one sort of person to another is the essence of repentance; the liar becomes truthful, the thief honest, the lewd pure, the proud humble. The whole moral texture of the life is altered. The thoughts, the desires, the affections are transformed, and the man is no longer what he had been before.”
“In a world of change, you have to learn to change with the World!”
“In a world of cheats and perves,
Be the proof of honor and love.
In the wild of sharks and wolves,
Be the gentle elephant, be a dove.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.”
Source: Arcadia
“In a world of choice, suffering is always a possibility. We
suffer because of our own self-destructive choices. We suffer from the sins of others. And we
suffer because of Adam and Eve’s first sin. Whether large or small—abuse or vomiting—
suffering is built into the system that God has designed. I could either accept that or fight it. I
was getting tired of fighting.”
Source: Trading Fathers: Forgiving Dad, Embracing God
“In a world of choices, arrogance gets replaced, and humility stays.”
Source: Quantraz
“In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.”
“In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.”
“In a world of competition, finding your tribe is not about conformity, but about connection. It's the alchemy of authenticity, where like-minded souls converge, recognizing and cherishing the unique gifts that make each other extraordinary.”
Source: A League of Your Own: Discovering Your Distinctive Advantage
“In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.”
“In a world of constant change, rigidity is a slow-motion shipwreck. Adaptability is no longer just a skill; it is the price of the entire voyage.”
Source: Captain, Set Sail: A Nautical Guide to Leadership in an Uncharted World
“In a world of constant change, God alone is the Rock upon which to build a life.”
“In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.”
“In a world of constant digital noise, a digital marketing strategist is the one who cuts through the clutter, connecting brands with their audience by delivering the right message, at the right time, on the right platform.”
“In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.”
Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc
“In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”
“In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.”
“In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.”
“In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.”
“In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.”
Source: Misadventurous
“In a world of digital copies, remaining a hand-written note, a poetry lulled in an orchard of His Grace.”
“In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly physicians in sigh, I too say, Trust Jesus. Let Him still the tempest and ride upon the storm. Believe that He can lift mankind from its bed of affliction, in time and in eternity.”
“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“In a world of diversity, and cultural differences... there's no such thing as 'common' sense.”
“In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.”
“In a world of echoes, let your truth be the loudest voice.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“In a world of EMPTY promises ... the EMPTY tomb changed everything. No Dark Clouds”
“In a world of endless choices, arrogance gets swapped out, but humility sticks around.”
Source: Quantraz
“In a world of endless perspectives and shifting truths, we can no longer live by a single story; meaning now begins where questioning does.”
“In a world of exponential change, the capacity to remain curious—to find joy and purpose in not knowing—is actually a form of wisdom.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.”
Source: Uglies
“In a world of fame, followers, likes and paparazzi, we need to aspire to be something other than popular.”
Source: Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts