World Quotes - Page 37

• Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, Littles

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Kissing, Boys, Other Worlds

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.176, Penguin

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• Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

  Ann Aguirre

  Weight, Lips, Breathe

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• In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

  Rex Stout

  Coincidence, Expected

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.72, Crimeline

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• I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

  Pat Conroy

  Military, Good Mood, Duty

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.403, Open Road Media

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• We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Needs, Students

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• When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

  P. D. James

  Struggle, Compassion, Echoes

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.157, Vintage

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• Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

  Alan Moore

  Please, Save The World

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• Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Blessed, Thinking, Funny Things

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Needs, Want

  Malorie Blackman (2010). “Boys Don't Cry”, p.233, Random House

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• Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Lying, Dark, Men

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• You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fighting, Thinking, Rodents

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.272, Random House

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• What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?

  James Patterson

  World Destruction, Peace Love, Lost In Translation

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• To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Heart, Eye

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Past, Other Worlds

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.267, Random House

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• ...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

  Yukio Mishima

  Decay, Kind, Purity

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

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• We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

  Colin Meloy

  Beautiful, Children, Pain

  "Wildwood". Book by Colin Meloy, August 30, 2011.

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• It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.

  Lauren Oliver

  Real, School, Two

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.30, HarperCollins

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• Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, Satisfaction, Mama

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Two, Together

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.43, Hamilton Books

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• For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

  Joseph Conrad

  Long, Feelings, Scare

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.29, eKitap Projesi

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• Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fate, Our World, Hanging On

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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