World Quotes - Page 25

• Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Stories, Forests, Spirit

  Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Pretties”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

  Karl Marx

  Winning, Uniting, Revolution

  "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.

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• But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. That’s harsh and magical and somewhat comforting because nothing is immutable, however much we want it to be. Moments cannot be caught like fossils in amber, ever- perfect,ever-beautiful. They go dark and raw, full of shadows, leaving you with the memories. And the world moves on.

  Ann Aguirre

  Beautiful, Memories, Moving

  "Aftermath". Book by Ann Aguirre, August 30, 2011.

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• We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Laughing, Break

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.290, Open Road Media

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• Strange world isn't it?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strange, Strange World

  "The Host". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Flesh, Spirit, Sin

  Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out. "Posture's wrong," Kat said. "He's still ... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world. "I feel so objectified. So ... cheap," Hale told them.

  Ally Carter

  Hands, Hot, Insult

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Treat the world like a head.

  Karl Pilkington

  Treats

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• 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

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• Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Winter, Blessing

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.53, Penguin

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• ...I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?" "The middle of what?" "I don't know, the middle of tomorrow and forever, the middle of life and death, the middle of normal and paranormal. Where we've always been." I bit my lip, nodding against his forehead. "There's a place for us there, right?" "Always." He put his lips to mine, sealing our own little spot in the world. Together.

  Kiersten White

  Life And Death, Forever, Together

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• Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

  Tim Minchin

  Enough, This World

  Song: Storm

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• 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

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• The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, People, Broken

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.1, Bantam

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• Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Thinking, Dust

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

  Cormac McCarthy

  Nature, Woods, One Time

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Child of God”, p.127, Vintage

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

  Aimee Bender

  Hands, Streets, Sidewalk

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• The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Taken, Views, Confusion

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

  Rob Thurman

  Block, Half, Jersey

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• 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

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• Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Light, People

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• How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, June, Giving

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Race, Dying, Answers

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• 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”

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