All Quotes

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.
‐‐ Ben Carson

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
‐‐ Denis Leary

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.
‐‐ Peter Krause

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.
‐‐ John Niven

We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

We live in a culture of destructive transparency.
‐‐ Tina Brown

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
‐‐ Shakti Gawain

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
‐‐ Carl Honore

We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

We live in a dangerous world, and Russia has not complied with existing treaties.
‐‐ Chuck Fleischmann

We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.
‐‐ Jim Saxton

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce

We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
‐‐ Rand Paul

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
‐‐ Hal Holbrook

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.
‐‐ Martin Parr

We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
‐‐ Omar Ahmad

We live in a digital world where all is available at the touch of a screen. Money has been simplified, changed subtly over time from tangible bills to numbers in cyberspace. Cash is no longer in a cloth bag; it's numbers on a screen. Numbers that can be manipulated and modified. If you run out of numbers, you can just buy some more, right?
‐‐ Rhys Darby

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
‐‐ Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
‐‐ Neil LaBute

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.
‐‐ Julia Butterfly Hill

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
‐‐ John Berger

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.
‐‐ Fergus Henderson

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
‐‐ Pastor Maldonado

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.
‐‐ Eric Liu

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
‐‐ Alan Lightman

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
‐‐ Martin Parr

We live in a kissy society.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
‐‐ Bob Taft

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.
‐‐ Tom Ford

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
‐‐ R. D. Laing

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
‐‐ Gary Neville