World Quotes - Page 20

• Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

  Jorge Amado

  Wonderful, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Jorge Amado (1988). “Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon”

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• ...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

  Ian Mcewan

  Giving, Wanted, Ran

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.157, Random House

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• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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• When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Men, Desire, Overcoming

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2008). “Miscellaneous Pieces: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.119, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

  Will Rogers

  Doctors, Matter, Patient

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers: Reflections and Observations”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Delving, Nameless

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

  Robert Browning

  Struggle, Men, Half

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Interesting, Special, Able

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.249, Hachette UK

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• Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and spiritual loveliness to the setting where He has placed you. You are a child of God. You are a part of the bride of Christ. You belong to the King--you are royalty. Dress and conduct yourself in a way that reflects your high and holy calling. God has called you out of this world's system--don't let the world press you into its mold. Don't think, dress, or act like the world; inwardly and outwardly, let others see the difference He makes in your life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Spiritual, Kings, Children

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• This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

  Charles Dickens

  Poverty, Wealth, Pursuit

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• Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stories, Use, Shapes

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• Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.

  Tonya Hurley

  Being In Love, Worst, Knows

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• Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Dragons, Years

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.2515, Delphi Classics

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• Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Alcohol, Trying

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• At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Years, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Simple, World Love, Forgiving

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.

  Mark Millar

  Dream, Dark, Men

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• Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Unity, Doe, Body

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

  Pete Hamill

  Baby, Beach, New York

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• Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you. And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide But I love you until the end of time

  Ewan McGregor

  Song, Stars, Spring

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• Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

  Colin Wilson

  Simple, Perception, Prejudice

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• My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Home, Thinking

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• Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

  Ted Dekker

  Lonely, Taken, Intelligent

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• College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Real, College, Names

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Drawing, Labyrinth

  Sean Kernan, Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “The secret books”, Leete'S Island Books

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