„You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.“
Advice given by von Neumann to Richard Feynman as quoted in "Los Alamos from Below" in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985).
John von Neumann
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„you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, livro Invisible Monsters
Fonte: Invisible Monsters
„Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.“
— Anne Lamott Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954
Fonte: Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
„The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.“
— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Charley
Death of a Salesman (1949)
„When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.“
— Steve Maraboli 1975
Fonte: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83
„Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.“
— Malorie Blackman, livro Boys Don't Cry
Fonte: Boys Don't Cry
„The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline, livro Voyage au bout de la nuit
Fonte: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5
Contexto: Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.
„That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.“
— Sophie Kinsella, livro Shopaholic Abroad
Fonte: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
„My father once said, 'If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don't have to follow. You don't have to make a big deal about which way you're going. Just go. It's very easy.“
— Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954
„Ghyl laughed also. “If I'm too serious, you're too irresponsible.”
“Bah,” retorted Floriel. “Is the world responsible? Of course not! The world is random, vagrant, heedless. To be responsible is to be out of phase, to be insane!”
Ghyl pondered a moment. “This is perhaps the case, in a world left to itself. But society imposes order. Living in a society, it is not insane to be responsible.”“
— Jack Vance, livro Emphyrio
Fonte: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 11
„I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.“
— Cormac McCarthy American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen
„You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.“
— Barack Obama, livro Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Fonte: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
„You're doing OK. You're always doing OK — however bad you think you are doing — this is another page of the book. But remember the responsibility you can have, or the power you can have, to make the sun shine a little brighter for the person next to you. Even if you never see them again — it will mean the world to them, what you can do.“
— Ysabella Brave American singer 1979
"Self Esteem" (31 May 2007)
„The reality is that you're entitled to believe what you want as long as you're not imposing your beliefs on other people. …I don't think [atheists] need to shut up. The reason why I don't think they need to shut up is because there's a whole bunch of people in this world that we can look at and say they need to shut up and they certainly don't. You got everybody fighting for their own individual cause. This is their cause. We might not like it. I don't agree with it at all, but they do have a right.“
— Stephen A. Smith sports journalist 1967
Interview on Paula Zahn Now http://atheism.about.com/b/a/258728.htm (January 31, 2007).
