#world

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world. ↗

— George Osborne

#cheap #competitive #create #earn #go

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#foolish #haunt #memory #our #refuge

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#being #between #blink #choice #give

Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#being #brain #england #getting #had

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#child #children #imagination #imaginative #into

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#change #continuous #dynamic #entities #especially

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#carrying #drop #even #go #idea

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#dark #exerted #german #occupation #outside