World Quotes - Page 15

• To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

  Chris Colfer

  Giving, Pedestal, Flaws

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• It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.

  Bram Stoker

  Kings, Fall, Heart

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.171, Bram Stoker

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• Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

  Lisa Unger

  Philosophy, Giving, Forever

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.695, Crown

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• So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Self, Kind, Retarded

  Croshaw's website "Fully Ramblomatic", www.fullyramblomatic.com. July 3, 2003.

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• Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

  Heather Brewer

  Book, Dust, Solitude

  Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.90, Penguin

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• Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Denial, Gestures, Personal Question

  Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

  Gabrielle Zevin

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• But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.

  Muriel Barbery

  Princess, States

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in America—probably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

  Lauren Oliver

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Prayer, Failure, Heart

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.

  Kevin Hearne

  Tree, Fans, Too Much

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.294, Del Rey

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• Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Our World, Enemy

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• Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Doors

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• Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Magic, Unseen

  "The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

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• The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Hands, People

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• Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Boys, Scary

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Good Man, End Of The World

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.204, Random House

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• Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?

  Ilona Andrews

  Air, Long, Monsters

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.73, Penguin

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• One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

  Diana Gabaldon

  War, Men, Might

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.1761, Delacorte Press

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• Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Passing Away, Today, Tomorrow

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1293, Dell

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• Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mother and all of you are- as you used to call it in the Shadowlands- dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

  Malorie Blackman

  Love You, Waiting, Family And Friends

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• Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window

  Steve Kluger

  Song, Fun, Grateful

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• When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

  Gena Showalter

  Wife, Want, Littles

  Gena Showalter (2011). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.310, HQN Books

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