World Quotes - Page 36

• Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Good Life, Reflection, Done

  "Working class heroes" by Shirley Dent, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Kissing, Names

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.206, Harlequin

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• But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Halfway There, Needs, World Famous

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• She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

  James Joyce

  Dream, Heart, Men

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.699, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

  Craig Silvey

  People, This World, Knows

  Craig Silvey (2010). “Jasper Jones”, p.246, Random House

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• Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Cat, Alleys

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• We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, War, Believe

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• Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Silly, Silly Things

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.352, Hachette UK

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• Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.

  Mira Grant

  Taken, Past, Thinking

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• The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

  Jim Harrison

  Nurse, Woods, Used

  Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press

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• When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

  Anais Nin

  Care, Firsts, Fit

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• I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, Opportunity, People

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.203, Beacon Press

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

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• I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Land, Might, Matter

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

  Sylvia Plath

  Women, Learning, Laughing

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• Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Stories, Goes On

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything.

  James A. Baldwin

  Space, Waiting, Forever

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• Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fighting, Towers, Stories

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.617, GENERAL PRESS

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• He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

  Christine Feehan

  Passion, Scary, Unexpected

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.116, Penguin

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• Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Strong

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• Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it’s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it’s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don’t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.

  Charles Yu

  Lying, Mirrors, Doors

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• This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heartbroken, Children, Order

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• This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, Cuckoos, Rabbit Holes

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dying, Done, Way

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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