T Quotes
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“The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.”
Source: I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller
“The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.”
Source: Affinities
“The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.”
“The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.”
Source: The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers
“The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.”
“The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.”
“The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.”
“The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?”
“The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.”
“The world doesn't learn about God by watching Christian movies. The world learns about God by watching Christians.”
“The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.”
“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
“The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is”
“The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.”
“The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.”
“The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.”
“The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.”
“The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.”
“The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.”
“The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.”
“The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.”
“The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.”
“The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.”
“The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.”
“The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.”
“The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.”
“The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.”
“The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.”
Source: Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
“The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?”
“The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.”
“The world doesn´t believe the Bible, Christians don´t obey the
Bible.”
“The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.”
“The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.”
“The world doesn’t need more people playing small. It’s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It’s time to stop needing and start leading. It’s time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don’t exist. It’s time you started playing the game of life in a “big” way.”
“The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.”
“The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.”
“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.”
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations
“The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.”
“The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.”
“The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.”
Source: The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society
“The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.”
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.”
“The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.”
“The world ends when I die. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.”
“The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.”
“The world enjoys suffering and pain. There's sadism in the way we look at these things, and masochism in our conclusion that we don't need to know all this in order to be happy, and yet we watch other people's tragedies and sometimes suffer along with them.”
Source: Eleven Minutes