World Quotes - Page 21

• The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

  Alan Moore

  Dog, Children, Fate

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• sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

  Tao Lin

  Beautiful, Distance, Years

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• I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?

  Cassandra Clare

  Who Cares, Vanishing, Care For You

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.626, Simon and Schuster

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• Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Delving, Nameless

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

  Robert Browning

  Struggle, Men, Half

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.

  Kristin Hannah

  Beautiful, Rain, Night

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Interesting, Special, Able

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.249, Hachette UK

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• Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and spiritual loveliness to the setting where He has placed you. You are a child of God. You are a part of the bride of Christ. You belong to the King--you are royalty. Dress and conduct yourself in a way that reflects your high and holy calling. God has called you out of this world's system--don't let the world press you into its mold. Don't think, dress, or act like the world; inwardly and outwardly, let others see the difference He makes in your life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Spiritual, Kings, Children

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• When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

  Jo Nesbo

  Jobs, Artist, People

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• Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

  Martin Buber

  Latin, Want, Acquired Taste

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.12, eBookIt.com

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• This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

  Charles Dickens

  Poverty, Wealth, Pursuit

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• Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stories, Use, Shapes

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• Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

  Janette Rallison

  Stories, New World

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• Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.

  Tonya Hurley

  Being In Love, Worst, Knows

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• Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Dragons, Years

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.2515, Delphi Classics

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• We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.

  Bisco Hatori

  Hurt, Distance, Keys

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• Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Easter, Men, Vacation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Artistic Life, Space

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• Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Alcohol, Trying

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• At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Years, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

  William Hazlitt

  Errors, Dread, Convinced

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.160

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• The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Simple, World Love, Forgiving

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.

  Mark Millar

  Dream, Dark, Men

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• Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Light, Other Worlds

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.429, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Distance, Laughing, Perspective

  "War Through a Poet's Lens" by Donald P. Kommers, www.americamagazine.org. April 22, 2000.

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