World Quotes - Page 19

• The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

  Michael Crichton

  Our World, True Power, Profound

  Michael Crichton (2008). “Timeline”, p.480, Random House

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• All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

  Vera Nazarian

  Responsibility, Knowing, Stories

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC

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• I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.

  Vera Nazarian

  Memories, Two, Stories

  Vera Nazarian (2002). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.193, Wildside Press LLC

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• It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

  Christopher Paolini

  Eagles, Views, Sky

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2884, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Trying, Would Be, Today

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Long, Sorrow, Despair

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• ...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Mean, Air

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Wake Up, Pieces

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, May, Venture

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Screw Ups, Genius

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2014

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• I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

  Regina Doman

  Real, Princess, Thinking

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• The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, Men, Thinking

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• I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm used to it ... I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

  Leila Aboulela

  Moving, Ceilings, Routine

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Cities, Light

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

  Gary Gygax

  Fun, Playing Games, Guy

  Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. August 16, 2004.

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• Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Earth, Ifs

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• Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra

  Kelley Armstrong

  Believe, Sabotage, Things To Do

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• The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Healing, Winter

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• I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Knowing, Comfort

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reality, Dust, Ideas

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2468, Delphi Classics

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• In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

  Theodor Adorno

  Soul, Prison, Rage

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.53, Stanford University Press

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• It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

  Nick Hornby

  Christmas, Messages, Holes

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.138, Penguin

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• Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

  Nora Roberts

  Loss, Opening Up, Giving

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1043, Penguin

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• To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Country, Winning

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.31, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

  Bo Burnham

  Real, Guy, Important

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