#world

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#causes #changes #how #important #make

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like? ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#been #fan #her #huge #huge fan

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#children #existence #felt #finely #injustice

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#evil #genius #other #some #through

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#death #feet #freezes #got #hate

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #right #tiny #totally #typewriter

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#most #mother #she #supportive #world

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#artist #artists #how #lit #name

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certainly #contents #does #fit #fits