World Quotes - Page 26

• You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

  John Green

  Distance, Kids, Wind

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• Its a Bieber world live it or die.

  Justin Bieber

  Dies

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• The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

  Osamu Dazai

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

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• Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

  Darren Shan

  Teacher, Teaching, Appreciate

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• The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Idiot, Rescue

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.361, D. H. Lawrence

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• For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

  Brad Meltzer

  Ideas, Superhero, Contribution

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• We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Groups, Three, Causes

  "The Night Eternal: Book Three of the Strain Trilogy". Book by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, October 25, 2011.

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• This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Water, Hot

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• The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not... not settle for it and only it.

  Alyson Noel

  Soul, Settling, Strive

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• In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

  Haruki Murakami

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

  John Green

  Dark, Order, Wizards

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.145, A&C Black

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• What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Stories, Influence, Turns

  "Davos 2013: Quotes From Mindful Leaders". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

  Philip Pullman

  Sky, Sun, Born

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• The world is changing and people don't like change.

  Peter James

  People

  Peter James (2011). “Perfect People”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it’s gone. You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in the world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.’ ‘It might be just some trend that came and went,’ I said. ‘But for us, it’s our life.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Games, People

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.243, Faber & Faber

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• I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Heart, Trying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  New York

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

  Brian Selznick

  Mom, Dream, Dad

  Brian Selznick (2015). “Wonderstruck”, p.221, Scholastic

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• Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.

  Robert E. Howard

  Stars, Ocean, Son

  Robert E Howard “Conan the Barbarian”, Lulu.com

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• My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Thinking, Space

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• Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

  Edward Abbey

  Favorite Hobby, Hobbies, Saving

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cockroaches, Toilets, Way

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• They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Men, Medicine

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

  John Green

  Real, Drinking, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.216, Penguin

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