#world

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#children #days #earthquake #else #forget

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#business #business world #came #enjoying #expecting

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#glory #how #oh #passes #swiftly

Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#best #criticised #cup #decided #forward

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#art world #been #coherent #kind #minute

What you don’t know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in for a week, a month, or a year—even if you come home without a scratch—you are never, ever going to be the same. When I went in, I was eighteen. I thought it was all glory and you win lots of medals. You think you’re going to be the guy. Then you find out the cost is very great. Especially when you don’t see the kids you were with when you went in. Living with it can be hell. It’s like the devil presides in you. I knew what I sighed up for, yes, and I would do it again. But the reality of war—words can’t begin to describe it. ↗

— William Guarnere

#memoir #military #world-war-ii #life

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape. ↗

— Erik Larson

#germany #history #hitler #war #world-war-ii

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived. ↗

— John le Carré

#power #world-order #food

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves. ↗

— Helen Keller

#education #happiness #hope #inspiration #optimism

All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty