World Quotes - Page 16

• I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt.Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, London, Firsts

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• How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

  Franny Billingsley

  Inspiring Love, Spiritual Love, Whole

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• Think positive girl, or the world ends.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Thinking, Think Positive

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.119, Penguin UK

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• And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

  Stephen King

  Men, Wonder, Rich

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the dark by sheer will. And I always knew that if I reached out -- if i tried to touch you -- I'd get burned. Because you're not mine. I'm not supposed to feel the fire. I'm not supposed to want it. But I do. I want you, Kaylee, like I've never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.

  Rachel Vincent

  Beautiful, Dark, Fire

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.232, Harlequin

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• Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, People, Design

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.

  Patrick Marber

  Stupid, Expression, Giving

  Patrick Marber (2004). “Plays 1: Dealer's choice ; After Miss Julie ; Closer”, A&C Black

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• In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Believe, Struggle, Challenges

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage

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• There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

  Mira Grant

  Viruses, Patient, Host

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.360, Hachette UK

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• As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

  Jack Ketchum

  Bad Jokes, Punchlines, Jokes

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• My love has eyes blue as the sky. Her warm, bright smile makes me want to try To give her the world, And when she's curled Up in my arms where I can feel her touch, I realize again that I love her so much. My world has turned from black to white. Kissing in starlight, basking in sunlight, dancing at midnight.' ~John's poem for Belle

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Kissing, Blue

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• The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, America, People

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• In the hyperconnected world, there is only “good” “better” and “best.

  Thomas Friedman

  "How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 1, 2011.

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• ...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

  Laini Taylor

  Wings, Different, Hiding

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• shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

  Rachel Caine

  War, Thinking, Fifteen

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• I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.

  Anne Bronte

  Adversity, Eye, Opinion

  Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Smart, Brave New World

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• the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

  Daniel Handler

  Powerful, Our World, Doe

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• The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

  Rick Riordan

  May, Fixing, Needs

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• Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Secret, Important, One Day

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• An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Suffering, Katie

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2011

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• I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Mind, Want

  Howard Gardner (2006). “The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner”, p.166, Routledge

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• I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Powerful, Lying, Book

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.127, Random House

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• We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

  Emily Giffin

  Growing Up, Growing, Figures

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• Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Children, Book

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