World Quotes - Page 15

• The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

  Wendell Berry

  Rap, Tomorrow May Never Come, Cuz

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.171, Counterpoint Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.

  Markus Zusak

  Men, Hair, Opposites

  4 Copy quote

• there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful, Love You, Curiosity

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.47, The Overlook Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Princess, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.575, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

  Robin Hobb

  Done, Way, Facts

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Golden Fool: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.799, Spectra

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Past, Moon, Blue

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Country, Eye, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Identity, Needs

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.158, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

  Cornel West

  Differences, Commit, Nations

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Feb 05, 2013

  118 Copy quote

  Show source

• So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

  John Milton

  Men, Goes On, Weight

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.454

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Differences, Doe, Littles

  5 Copy quote

• We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

  Aimee Bender

  Hands, Streets, Sidewalk

  4 Copy quote

• We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Our World, Skills

  4 Copy quote

• We are a society that constantly celebrates no one but women and it must stop! I want to hear what the men of the world have been up to. What fun new guns have they invented? What are they raping these days? What’s Michael Bay’s next film going to be?

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Gun, Men

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

  Susan Mallery

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

  15 Copy quote

• It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Distance, Eye, Night

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.743, Harvard University Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mother, Eye, Mirrors

  9 Copy quote

• But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.420, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.

  Joseph Roth

  Believe, Moving, Garden

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Emperor's Tomb”, p.47, The Overlook Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

  Katherine Applegate

  Thinking, Guy, Trouble

  Katherine Applegate (2004). “Ever World: books I & II”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Cutting, Math

  "Town of Cats" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. September 5, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Feelings, Saying No

  4 Copy quote

• Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch," Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.

  Lynsay Sands

  Hands, Couches, Fingers

  4 Copy quote

• One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

  18 Copy quote

• My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Dark, Peaceful

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.163, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source