World Quotes - Page 20

• The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

  David Eddings

  Beautiful, Looks, Response

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• Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Loyalty, Sometimes

  Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)

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• The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Healing, Winter

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• I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Knowing, Comfort

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Lying, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reality, Dust, Ideas

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2468, Delphi Classics

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• In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

  Theodor Adorno

  Soul, Prison, Rage

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.53, Stanford University Press

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• How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Relief, Would Be

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• I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

  Richard Kadrey

  Ballet, Slippers, Steel

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!

  Jim Butcher

  Army, Guy, Bumps

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story”, p.351, Penguin

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• It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

  Nick Hornby

  Christmas, Messages, Holes

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.138, Penguin

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• Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

  Nora Roberts

  Loss, Opening Up, Giving

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1043, Penguin

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• Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

  Nora Roberts

  Bumps, Sides, Welcome

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• To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Country, Winning

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.31, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

  Bo Burnham

  Real, Guy, Important

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• Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

  Jorge Amado

  Wonderful, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Jorge Amado (1988). “Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon”

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• It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.

  Alison Goodman

  Real, Imagine, Real World

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.287, Penguin

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• You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

  Julia Quinn

  Dark, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Feb 26, 2015

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• ...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

  Ian Mcewan

  Giving, Wanted, Ran

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.157, Random House

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• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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• There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.

  Anthony Hope

  Beautiful, Fall, Thinking

  Anthony Hope (2006). “Prisoner of Zenda EasyRead Comfort Editi”, p.275, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Men, Desire, Overcoming

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2008). “Miscellaneous Pieces: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.119, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

  Will Rogers

  Doctors, Matter, Patient

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers: Reflections and Observations”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.

  Lauren Oliver

  Night, Circles, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.33, HarperCollins

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  Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret...

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, Giving, Secret

  Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World", 1970.

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