I Quotes
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“In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“In a world of flexible spine and rigid mind, muster an unbending spine with expanding mind.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“In a world of flowers grown in pots, I'd like you girls to thrive in the wild.”
“In a world of fog and gray, the youth is a shining being dressed in dark violet, his golden-flecked hair smoothed back from his bronzed temples. He resembles a human, but no man I have ever seen holds himself like a king, like a gleaming statue chiseled from topaz.
I swallow. I am standing before a demon, the most beautiful being I have ever seen, and I can’t run. I can only stand in the hushed glade and stare, snowflakes falling in the space between us.”
Source: The Tribe of Ishmael
“In a world of free, everyone can play.”
“In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away”
“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.”
Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
“In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.”
“In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.”
“In a world of hate, love is the revolution.”
“In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.”
“In a world of increasing complexity, the simple man walks alone. Knowing his ways are not of the world. Refusing to complicate and confuse those things which he knows to be true. Love is that which he seeks. Fear he flings aside. To stand tall before his creator and know that he is blessed beyond measure.”
“In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.”
“In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.”
“In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.”
Source: Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power
“In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.”
“In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...”
Source: Stress Diary Journal
“In a world of infinite choice if something is not made specifically for me I'm gone.”
“In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.”
“In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating.”
Source: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
“In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.”
“In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.”
“In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and purchasing. The closed network of a printed book, on the other hand, seems to offer greater serenity. It harks back to a pre-jacked-in age. Cloth, paper, ink: For these read helmet, cuirass, shield. They afford a degree of protection and make possible a less intermediated, less fractured experience. They guard our aloneness. That is why I love them, and why I read printed books still.”
Source: Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London
“In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked.”
“In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to effect change as much as love and compassion.”
Source: Perceptions From the Photon Frequency: the ascended version
“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
“In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.”
Source: Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
“In a world of love
lightning and rainbow
are lovers now.
They arc and strike
upon the horizon of credence
to rise above their cloudy vow”
“In a world of machines and code, even robots can dream. Sometimes the greatest discoveries come from the unlikeliest of friends.”
Source: Robot5
“In a world of many beliefs, believe in your better self, and create it.”
“In a world of masks, facades, and duplicated originality, authenticity is a rare and precious gift!”
“In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.”
“In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.”
Source: Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday
“In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand.”
Source: Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday
“In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.”
Source: God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
“In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.”
“In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.”
“In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.”
“In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.”
“In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.”
“In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.”
“In a world of pushing, shoving, striving to get ahead at all costs people; to those who knew him well, John Mann was a breath of fresh air.”
Source: The Chameleon
“In a world of rampant lying, where so many lies are used to inflame passions and justify false grievances, the indiscriminate pursuit of justice leads sooner or later to insanity, mass murder, and the ruin of entire civilizations. Therefore, those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the unequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.”
Source: Deeply Odd
“In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.”
Source: The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
“In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.”
“In a world of remakes and rip-offs, be original.”
Source: Thelema: Book 0 - The Fool
“In a world of ruins, she was the one thing I wanted to build.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“In a world of self indulgence your attitude is going to be your biggest obstacle because you're only concerned with yourself!”
“In a world of self-optimization, self-care is self-defense.”