I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.
The National’s favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.
Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don’t always get what is rightfully ours, even if we’ve earned it.
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge – a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to ‘by how much?’ rather than merely to ‘in which direction?’
We say that our world must think of and listen to consumers, and this is true, but not too much, in the sense that if you want to change and innovate, you must also think with your own head. Maybe you make choices that the market is not ready to accept but that will be accepted in 18 or 24 months.
I feel happy and secure when I’m on my bed with a good book… I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.
Let’s not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We’ll be their butlers soon enough.
It’s our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.
I would quite like to see stories that are not necessarily to do with the violence, because I think there was quite a lot of normality in our world – but it is never reflected on the screen.
We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world – be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government – keep things from us.
With a more intimate understanding of our world, we can begin to eradicate some of our most pressing challenges – even hunger and the availability of drinkable water.
So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.
Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.
Justice Ginsburg is a shining example of how one person can impact our world and truly make a difference. May her memory be a blessing.
We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it’s hard to process what’s going on in our world. It’s reassuring to see the good winning.
In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don’t know anything about, and when I learn about them they’re always fascinating.
It’s hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we’re woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.
Our world has us always here. We will be here from now ’til the end of time… maybe not! And that’s the scary part!
What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
We’re seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It’s a golden age of invention.
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony, it’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
It’s truly important that we uplift those who use their skills to develop technology and ideas that benefit our world.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
We have to try harder to do our best every day, challenge ourselves to better our world.
Everything in our world is branded.
While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don’t get in trouble.
When you look at our world, the truth is that we’re all under the influence of politics.
Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.
We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.
I’m proud to have represented England in four World Cups but it was hugely frustrating that we never reached a semi-final or played to our ability.
Reading is how I became an actor because I didn’t grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.
Here’s something we’re rarely told growing up: our world rewards wealth, not hard work or talent.
My ’50s were different than other people’s ’50s. The myth didn’t permeate our world, ‘Donna Reed’ and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
I think a lot of times we’re so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it’s all directed around that love, and if you don’t have that love, how sad you are.
Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability.
In our world, as artists, the only time I’m allowed to express myself is through song.
I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.
As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can’t get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
Our children think our world will end. It’s a tragic thing. Adults don’t think that. They don’t see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
Let the message go out – a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
Our world faces many grave challenges: Widening conflicts and inequality. Extreme weather and deadly intolerance. Security threats – including nuclear weapons. We have the tools and wealth to overcome these challenges. All we need is the will.
Our world desperately needs real leadership.
To me, there’s so much we don’t understand about our world, and I think it’s really fascinating to see these people come up with the stuff that they come up with.
We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing… The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
I don’t think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you’re achieving. I’m all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
