“The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.” PeopleMenWorldWayEyeRunningFoundDecisionThis WorldScaryMinistersHopefulLife And DeathPrimePrime Minister Author:Hugh Sidey
“When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.” PeopleKnowsWorldReadingGroupsThis WorldPeriodsSettingSettingsDaydreamingTime PeriodsOh My Gosh Author:Brit Marling
“The world's geography is not realistic. Geography is not real. Borders are only closed to people but they are open to products. There is another type of geography outside of this matrix. Because of this we noticed we were talking about much more than just Latin America. That was very important to put the film on another level. Based on this idea, we knew that we were not in this world any longer.” PeopleWorldImportantIdeasRealAmericaFilmLevelsTalkingThis WorldProductsTypeBordersLatinRealisticGeographyLatin America Author:Alex Abreu
“People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.” PeopleWorldAsksThis WorldFemalePriests Author:Maggie Q
“The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.” PeopleWorldDifferentShowsRunningEffortGroupsThis WorldCreatingCastsIntenseZeroSurprisingCrewRunnersDifferent ExperiencesGround ZeroSurprising Things Author:Veena Sud
“I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?” PeopleWorldLooksKindWholeThis WorldAmbitionPhotographyCamerasBe Good Book:Lisette Model Source: Lisette Model
“If anything, people think it's cool that I'm still working. I'm proud to be a working mama in this world.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStillsThis WorldProudMama Author:Megan Alexander
“We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.” PeopleIfsWorldLittlesSometimesHelpingSufferingPathThis WorldPainfulLittle Help Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly.” PeopleKnowsWorldStillsCountryForcePowerfulSituationMillionsCuttingThis WorldEightKneesMost Powerful Author:Randall Robinson
“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.” PeopleWorldYearsKindChildrenHappenedCrazyHavensThis WorldBabyMy FriendsAll KindsTragicFifteenFifteen YearsSad Things Author:Grace Paley
“When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.” PeopleWorldWayKindCertainPoorSawsThis WorldLegacyIndifferenceBiasPoor PeoplePlightUnfairnessProvokedInsensitivityUnreliabilityRacial Bias Author:Bryan Stevenson
“People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.” PeopleWorldThis WorldColorStandingStanding OutBright Colors Author:Kanye West
“There's more to this world than just people, you know.” PeopleKnowsWorldThis World Author:Bill Watterson
“If you actually get that you're not entitled to be loved, not by one person, not by anybody, and if you get that and then you look at people who love you - who love you - who think, my life is better because you, you are in it - that they get up and think, my whole world is better because you're in it, that for some reason they love you, and that they walk this world when you're not around thinking, but you're in it, and they come home and they want to call you, they want to come home and see you, your face - you can never make a person love you but somehow they do.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantLooksPersonsReasonWholeHomeFacesLife IsWalksLove YouThis WorldWhole WorldGet UpComing HomeYour FaceEntitledPersons Love Author:Caroline Myss
“There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.” PeopleWorldShouldArtistCertainOpinionThis WorldTypeWideRangeConfined Author:Ab-Soul
“I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless possibilities of animated movies, and I hope to be able to create something that will leave both children and adults thinking that this world is a sparkling, brightly shining place.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantChildrenAbleNextGivenChanceWatchesPossibilityThis WorldProjectsAdultsGratefulShiningAnimatedBoundlessSparklingAnimated Movies Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd shake up the mix considerably. And about the same time that the memoir was becoming the dominant popular literary form in the mid to late 90s, I started reading writers who were deliberately playing with the notion of "truth" and "fiction" - that struck me as a much more interesting way to tell certain stories, particularly in the realm of comedy.” PeopleWorldWayStoriesFormCertainReadingInterestingFictionComedyThis WorldBecomingLateCreatingNotionMemoirRealmsShakesDominantInteresting Ways Author:Kevin Keck
“I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongHas BeensKidsSchoolSocialFeltMy OwnGoneThis WorldAmountSkillsAnxietyLong TimeEnormousWealthyPolishedPrepsSocial Skills Author:Dan Chaon
“There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.” PeopleWorldNeedsOpportunityThis WorldAmazing People Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy
“In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.” PeopleWorldWellsAliveThis WorldRacismVenues Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy
“I also draw strength from so many people that I meet through my speaking engagements and my life and when I feel the joy that gets ignited when kindred spirits are together. It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.” PeopleWorldGivingFeelsTogetherJoySpiritThis WorldDrawsGive MeEngagementBetter PlaceKindredKindred Spirit Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Seeing how many people in our world today are focused on doing good in this world for others, especially in the younger generation and how passionate they feel about making a difference. What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other.” PeopleWorldFeelsHelpingTodayDifferencesSeeingGenerationsThis WorldInspirePassionateFocusedHelping OthersGenerousMaking A DifferenceOur WorldDoing GoodWorld TodayYounger Generation Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.” PeopleWorldTryingWellsSaidHoursJusticeSleepBreakMiddleSecurityThis WorldDependsKingsUnderstoodThreatInjusticeProsperityEastEnjoyedWakingDedicatedMiddle EastHusseinLutherJordanBreak ThroughImpasseInjustice Anywhere Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldHeartHelpingChristCommunityChurchTroubleHonestyThis WorldOvercomingBelieverLocalsPursueHolinessBiblicalHelping PeopleTransparencyLocal Church Author:Alan Chambers
“While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.” PeopleWorldLooksLittlesHelpingShowsRealizingDealsThis WorldPrideGayExcitedMonstersBarsValleysHelping PeopleGay People Author:Guy Branum
“Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!” PeopleWorldCoursesThis WorldBoredStressed Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWritingMayLittlesShowsNiceThis WorldBest ThingsThings To DoHook Author:Ice Cube
“The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantFirstsRealDesireFoundEnjoyPleasureLordThis WorldKeysSeekingLastingWant UGratificationLasting HappinessPleasing God Author:Francis Frangipane
“It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.” PeopleWorldUseHealingRichGrowingThis WorldSurvivalPercentTradePlantSlaveSeedsCollectivesHeritageCropsInvolvingBiodiversitySlave Trade Author:Vandana Shiva
“More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStoriesPoliticalInterestingThis WorldPerspectiveBalanceStorytellingTelling StoriesImpasse Author:Reese Witherspoon
“We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsPainTogetherRememberHumanityForceMorningPossibilityThis WorldWallTransformationSticksFingersEvery Morning Author:Shane Claiborne
“My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.” PeopleWorldSelfHelpingSpiritualPurposeSufferingInterestConsciousnessThis WorldAwakeningUnhappinessVehicleUnnecessarySpiritual AwakeningFloweringUnnecessary Suffering Author:Eckhart Tolle
“In the past people would say, "I can only do this world-class snowboarding if I have a helicopter." Actually, if you're committed to it, willing to put a bunch of energy into it, then you can do it under your own power.” PeopleIfsWorldI CanPastEnergyCan DoClassThis WorldWillingCommittedBunchYou Can Do ItHelicoptersWorld ClassSnowboarding Author:Jeremy Jones
“There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a certain type of people that looks at me and you and your average individual as a problem - like a blight on an otherwise potential paradise, something that needs to be cured.” PeopleWorldNeedsMindLooksStatesProblemCertainIndividualConsciousnessThis WorldTypeIntellectualAverageParadiseLook At MeBlight Author:El-P
“Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.” PeopleMenWorldWayWantLittlesWarSpiritualBlackReligiousWhitePoorClassDarknessBloodThis WorldFleshBrownPlotRulersWickednessRulingApostlesFlesh And BloodLittle ManHigh PlacesApostle Paul Author:Louis Farrakhan
“It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?” PeopleWorldMomentsHalfMillionsThis WorldCrisisDefinitionsHumanitarianMudWrong ThingsConcentrating Author:Natalie Dormer
“How you educate the people around you, what steps you take toward making it better, what sacrifices you make. The equation of life is simple: There's no gain without pain. For whatever reason, that's the way this world was designed in every facet. It's the same thing, there has to be a sacrifice.” PeopleWorldWayReasonPainLife IsSimpleStepsSacrificeThis WorldGainsEducateEquationsFacetsWithout PainLife Is Simple Author:Andrew Hawkins
“There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.” PeopleWorldTwoRealityThis WorldTelevisionTypeReality Television Author:Ian O'Doherty
“Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldStillsStreetsThis WorldPaintingSellingBrokeApplesBuyingPencilsLoan Author:Dennis Hopper
“In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.” PeopleWorldFactsBeautifulThis WorldWelfareSelflessBeautiful People Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to the darkness. So rather than that, we need to think of the beauty in the world, and also send out love and compassion to all beings in this world. Not just the people we like, but people who we find difficult. Because they are very deeply in need of compassion.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsDifficultSidesDarkCompassionDarknessThis WorldDespairHatredAddGloomDark SideVery DeepLove And Compassion Author:Tenzin Palmo
“It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldMeanLongRunningEnjoyHalfMillionsThis WorldSixPropertyBe GoodBillionsLong RunsTerrific Author:Warren Buffett
“All over this world people are standing up for freedom.” PeopleWorldThis WorldStanding Author:Malcolm X
“I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.” PeopleWorldRealKnownWonderSeeingThis WorldCapacityEnjoyedAweCapacity To LoveAwe And Wonder Author:Tara Brach
“This world is not a place where people can be together forever.” PeopleWorldTogetherForeverThis WorldTogether Forever Author:Junaid Jamshed
“It doesn't mean we're not going to be tough across the world, it doesn't mean that we're not going to always put America first in everything we do. But we have big problems in this world. And I don't think we can solve these big problems by making believe that people don't exist. They exist. We have to talk to people.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsBelieveMeanProblemBigsAmericaThis WorldToughSolveBig Problems Author:Reince Priebus
“I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I don't know. He seems like he connects with people. I can relate to him as a performer. I can see what tools he's using. He's good at riffing. He's good at taking the crowd on a journey. I can see what he's doing.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsPersonsI CanShowsSeemsRememberGuyCausesTalkingJourneyThis WorldTrumpToolsCrowdsSillyIgnorantRelatePerformersLaughedWowThis GuyDaily ShowIgnorant Person Author:Trevor Noah
“We cannot stand alone. With 80 million people in this world of today, you cannot, when you just stand on your own, achieve much even though you may be economically strong.” PeopleWorldMayTodayStrongMillionsAchieveThis WorldStand Alone Author:Angela Merkel