World Quotes - Page 13

• I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Nature, Father, Moon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?

  Ilona Andrews

  Air, Long, Monsters

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.73, Penguin

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• Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mother and all of you are- as you used to call it in the Shadowlands- dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window

  Steve Kluger

  Song, Fun, Grateful

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• I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Struggle, Laughing, Joy

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2008). “Mogworld”, p.14, Dark Horse Comics

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• So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Eye, Different

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.47, Penguin

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• Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

  Dean Koontz

  Beautiful, Grace, Eternity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.3, Bantam

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• All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Soul, Mind, Body

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• It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Believe, Kids

  "Misty".

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• A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Religious, War, Blood

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

  William P. Young

  Children, Greed, Would Be

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

  James Jones

  Years, Littles, Might

  James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1090, Open Road Media

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• It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

  Chaim Potok

  Father, Papa, Said

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.33, Anchor

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• Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

  Tove Jansson

  Hundred, Made, Concentration

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Night, Journey, Wonderful

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.22, Macmillan

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• The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

  Deb Caletti

  Numbers, Essentials, Good Things

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• People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Mad, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.346, Penguin

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• A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Eye, Warrior

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• If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

  H. G. Wells

  Glimpse, Leisure, Kodak

  H.G. Wells (2014). “The Time Machine”, p.97, Diderot Publishing

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• It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

  Gregory Maguire

  Evil, This World, Hard

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• Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

  Willa Cather

  Children, Blow, Hands

  Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

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• Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

  Tina Fey

  Character, Comedy, Librarian

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Mother, Needs, Driving

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