Whole World Quotes - Page 23

• Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Inspirational, Dream, Eye

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• If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Cheer Up, Positive Attitude, Garden

  "Fictional character: Mary Lennox". "The Secret Garden", www.imdb.com. August 13, 1993.

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• If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Atheist, Mistake

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Children, Men, Blood

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, People, World

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• The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  World, Return, No Hope

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• A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

  Robin Hobb

  Dirty, Men, Rivers

  Robin Hobb (2013). “The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic”, p.102, HarperCollins UK

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• "The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we’d all loosen up and we wouldn’t need the United Nations.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Three, Needs, World

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• Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

  Oscar Wilde

  Silly, Love You, Boys

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.393, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Daughter, Fate, Light

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• Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brotherhood, Church, Doe

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• So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blood, Hands, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Home, Thinking

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• In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

  Marguerite Duras

  Ignorance, Years, World

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• The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Light, Knowing Who You Are, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.475, Vintage

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• She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

  Lady Gregory

  Girl, World, Walks

  "Vanity Fair".

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• Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Life, World

  "An introduction to prudence".

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• I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Life, Believe

  Letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

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• The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Country, War, Believe

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• I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Flames

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

  Shane Claiborne

  Believe, Cpr, Practice

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.150, Harper Collins

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• And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.

  Michael Ende

  Mean, Heart, People

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• Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Giving, Generations, World

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• The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Forever, World

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam

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• No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Art, Brother, Eye

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