Whole World Quotes - Page 26

• May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Fall, Heart

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• Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

  Robert Hughes

  Eye, Views, Perspective

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.25, Vintage

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• Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Summer, Girl, Dream

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

  Ansel Adams

  Ocean, Rocks, Feelings

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• You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Faith, Hurt, Pain

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• Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Men

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Our World, Bigger

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• This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firefly, Night, World

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.64, Penguin

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• Your soul is the whole world.

  Hermann Hesse

  Soul, Siddhartha, World

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.5, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  World, Nobody Likes Me, Like Me

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• and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Sneak In, World

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love, Heart, Knowing

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• I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Hurt, Stupid, People

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• Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

  Joey Comeau

  Cities, Drunk, Wicked

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• There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Stupidity, Quality

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Believe, Suffering, World

  "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.

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• Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

  Lois Lowry

  Life, Mother, Ocean

  Lois Lowry (1992). “Number the Stars”, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

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• An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Shadow, Giants

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• I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Lying, Cutting, White

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• I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

  David Levithan

  Eye, Sound, World

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.78, Penguin

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• You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

  Mitch Albom

  World, Lost, Feels

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.226, Hachette UK

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• It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.

  Holly Black

  Crazy, Gone, Hey

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts really do help old ladies cross the street without mugging them and no one ever ignores a trauma victim’s screams. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Rainbow, People

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• I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

  Stephen King

  World, Minutes, Whole

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• If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

  Richard Brautigan

  Technology, World, Neurosis

  1970 The Abortion: An Historical Romance.

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