World Quotes - Page 31

• You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Strong, Wall, Hands

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

  David Mitchell

  Thinking, Masterpiece, Just One

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• Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Voice, Calling, Fields

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.571, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Soon, the whole world would be searching for her -Linh Cinder. A deformed cyborg with a missing foot. A Lunar with a stolen identity. A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go. But they will be looking for a ghost.

  Marissa Meyer

  Running, Feet, Missing

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• I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Stars, Lying

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.524, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Waiting, Screw You

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.229, Delacorte Press

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• Writing is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Writing, Great Inventions, Invention

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.7, Library of America

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• A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

  Alan Moore

  Growing Up, Hands, Guides

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• I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

  Melina Marchetta

  Soccer, Mother, Running

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Hate, Reality

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• More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Here I Am, Giving

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• I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, War, Teaching

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

  John Green

  Humans, Built

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.174, Penguin

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• Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Angel, Once Upon A Time

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Daughter, Children, Long

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Brother, Children, Sorry

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Thinking, Small Acts

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

  Tite Kubo

  This World

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• Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Firsts, Settling, Asks

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• Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Beautiful, Hurt, Sometimes

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “Now Is the Hour”, p.419, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

  Wendy Mass

  I've Learned, Can Do

  Wendy Mass (2011). “13 Gifts”, p.339, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Fun, Games

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• Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night.

  Neil Gaiman

  Good Night, Men, Two

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kindness, Taken, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.644, Simon and Schuster

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