Outside World Quotes - Page 2

• They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Winning, Thinking, Evil

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• Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, World, Bliss

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.187, A&C Black

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• A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, House, World

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.16, Random House

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• In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

  Booker T. Washington

  Book, People, Soul

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Reality, People, Important

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Eye, Two

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• And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hate, Eye, Self

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• I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else

  Mark Haddon

  Father, Two, White

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• Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

  Hugh Prather

  World, Description, Inadequacy

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Distance, Book

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• I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Stars, Rocks, World

  "Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn't Suck". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 1994.

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• I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Telephones

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• The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

  Stephenie Meyer

  World, Eclipse, Without You

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• And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

  James Herriot

  Lonely, Father, Simple

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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• When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

  Lance Loud

  Reading, Sick, Parent

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• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  Aaron Siskind

  Successful, World, Photographer

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• The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Dirty, Mind, World

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

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• I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

  Margaret Mahy

  Thinking, Games, Ideas

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• My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Trying, World, Life Is

  "Jeremy Jackson Up Close and Personal From Hollywood to Humble". Interview with Alexandra Holzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Interesting, Childhood, Understanding

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

  Eli Siegel

  Secret, World, Stuff

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• We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.

  Carly Simon

  Thinking, World, Opinion

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• I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Political, Chinese

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