Best World Events Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Oreo cookie invented, the Titanic sinks, Spanish flu, Prohibition, women granted the right to vote, Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic, penicillin invented, stock market crashes, the Depression, Amelia Earhart, the atom is split, Prohibition ends, Golden Gate Bridge is built, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Korean War, Disneyland, Rosa Parks, Laika the dog is shot into space, hula hoops, birth control pill invented, Bay of Pigs, Marilyn Monroe dies, JFK killed, MLK has a dream, Vietnam War, Star Trek, MLK killed, RFK killed, Woodstock, the Beatles (George, Ringo, John, and Paul) break up, Watergate, the Vietnam War ends, Nixon resigns, Earth Day, Fiddler on the Roof, Olga Korbut, Patty Hearst, Transcendental Meditation, the ERA, The Six Million Dollar Man. "Bloody hell," I said when she was done. "I know. It must be a lot to take in." "It's unfathomable. A Brit named his son Ringo Starr?" She looked pleasantly surprised: she'd thought I had no sense of humor. "Well, I think his real name was Richard Starkey.”

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Book:Valley of the Moon

Source: Valley of the Moon

“It was such a relief to think about world affairs! Like coming out of solitary confinement.”

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Book:The Watch Tower

Source: The Watch Tower

“World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?”

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Author:L.A. Reid

“In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.”

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Author:Chris Terrio

“Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.”

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Author:Vera Brittain

“Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.”

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Author:Richie Havens

“Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.”

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Author:Eugene Jarecki

“There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.”

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Author:Richard Curtis

“People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.”

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Author:Nick Thune

“To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.”

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Author:Andrew Bacevich

“But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.”

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Book:Iqbal centenary papers

Source: Iqbal centenary papers

“If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.”

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Author:Edith Schaeffer

“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.”

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Author:Gaston Bachelard

“I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.”

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Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.”

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Author:W. P. Kinsella

“We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.”

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Author:Katherine Paterson

“OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.”

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Author:Denis Healey

“Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.”

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Author:Lois Lowry

“World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.”

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Book:The Essential Gore Vidal

Source: The Essential Gore Vidal

“The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.”

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Author:Paul Azinger

“Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.”

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Author:Jurgen Habermas

“My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.”

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Author:Lisa Ling

“I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.”

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Author:Rupert Everett

“Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.”

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Author:Rosalind Wiseman

“People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.”

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Author:David Frum