World Quotes - Page 25

• The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

  Spider Robinson

  Dirty, Tired, Sunday

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• He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.

  Maya Banks

  Real, Eye, Kissing

  Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.1063, Penguin

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• If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Long, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Any place you love is the world to you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Places You Love

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.44, Penguin

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• ...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

  Isaac Marion

  Rigor Mortis, Scream, Happens

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Secret, Outsiders

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• Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.

  M. Scott Peck

  Discipline, People, And Love

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎People have presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we mean the basic way that an individual looks at life- his worldview. The grid through which he sees the world. Presuppositions rest upon that which a person considers to be the truth of what exists. A person's presuppositions provide the basis for their values- and therefore the basis for their decisions.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, People, Decision

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• The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Magic, Ordinary

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.304, Random House

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• He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

  Douglas Adams

  Feet, Different, Three

  "The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Girl, People, Perfect

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.67, Random House

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• I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

  Shelby Foote

  Ideas, Perfect, Bored

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• It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Want, Obsession

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, White Man, Differences

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.61, Faber & Faber

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• What are your thoughts?' 'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.' Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?' I told him the truth. 'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger.

  Megan McCafferty

  Hands, Skins, Curls

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.319, Broadway Books

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• That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Love Is, Care, Stakes

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes." "Dove's eyes are small." Marged said. "Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls At the limits of the world.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Passion, Long, Miracle

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• There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

  John Green

  Cancer, Kids, Sixteen

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin

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• In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.

  Ari Berk

  Home, Mean, House

  Ari Berk (2011). “Death Watch”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Hands, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

  Norman Maclean

  Idaho, Mountain, West

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Magic, Mystery

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 6.”, Lulu.com

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• He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. "You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Father, Lying

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

  Georges Bataille

  Form, Parody, Clear

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.5, U of Minnesota Press

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