W Quotes
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“We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.”
“We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.”
“We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.”
“We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.”
“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”
Source: Lectures and Essays
“We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.”
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
“We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.”
“We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.”
“We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.”
“We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”
“We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?”
“We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.”
“We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.”
“We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.”
“We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“We live in all we seek.”
“We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.”
“We live in America, one of the good things what we have with all the people is we have dialogue.”
“We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.”
Source: Postcards From the Edge
“We live in an adolescent society, Neverland, where never growing up seems more the norm than the exception. Little boys wearing expensive suits and adult bodies should not be allowed to run big corporations. They shouldn’t be allowed to run governments, armies, religions, small businesses and charities either and just quietly, they make pretty shabby husbands and fathers too. Mankind has become Pankind and whilst “lost boys” abound, there is also an alarming increase in the number of “lost girls.”
Source: Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations
“We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes. Man can provide a full life for humanity – or he can destroy himself with the problems he has created. The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.…”
Source: What It Takes to Be Number One: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.”
Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.”
Source: What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?
“We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.”
“We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.”
“We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”
“We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.”
“We live in an age now where people go to the movies and, even the biggest movies are in the theaters six, eight weeks and then gone. And then for the rest of time now people are watching them on their phones, or computers, or TVs. And that's how the films gonna live.”
“We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.”
“We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.”
“We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.”
Source: Right where You are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati
“We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.”
Source: Esoterism as Principle and as Way
“We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.”
“We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.”
“We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contacting at the same time.”
Source: The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
“We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contracting at the same time.”
Source: The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
“We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.”
“We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.”
“We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].”
“We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living”
Source: How to Thrive in the Digital Age
“We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.”
“We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.”
“We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.”
“We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.”
“We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.”
Source: I'm Not Stiller