"If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world."
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"I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world."
"I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad."
"You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first."
"I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen."
"I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything."
"I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people."
"No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings."
"Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world."
"The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair."
"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
"It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world."
"[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on."
"All the world is a stage and we are merely players."
"Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way."
"What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near."
"When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'"
"Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!"
"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."
"When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer."