World Quotes - Page 34

• Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it’s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it’s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don’t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.

  Charles Yu

  Lying, Mirrors, Doors

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• Many strange things happen in this world

  Johanna Spyri

  Strange, Happens, Things Happen

  Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi”, p.101, First Avenue Editions

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• This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heartbroken, Children, Order

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• This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, Cuckoos, Rabbit Holes

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

  Mindy Kaling

  Feelings, Mind, Sexiest

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.153, Crown/Archetype

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• The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

  Don DeLillo

  Unexpected, Abandoned, Intensity

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

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• They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dying, Done, Way

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, Littles

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mind

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• If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Kissing, Boys, Other Worlds

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.176, Penguin

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• Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

  Ann Aguirre

  Weight, Lips, Breathe

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• Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

  Sylvia Plath

  Hurt, Body, Hurt Me

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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• Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.

  Roger Caras

  Stars, Nice, Believe

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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• It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hardship, Rich, Fine

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.793, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

  Rex Stout

  Coincidence, Expected

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.72, Crimeline

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• I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

  Pat Conroy

  Military, Good Mood, Duty

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.403, Open Road Media

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• I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.

  Dale Wasserman

  Iron, Giving, Gold

  "Man of La Mancha". Musical by Dale Wasserman and Mitch Leigh, 1965.

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• We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Needs, Students

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• When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Names, Vices, Double Standard

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2000). “Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.952, Modern Library

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• All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

  Alan Moore

  Bad Day, Men, Dc Comics

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

  P. D. James

  Struggle, Compassion, Echoes

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.157, Vintage

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• Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

  Alan Moore

  Please, Save The World

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• Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Love Is, Loving Someone

  "The Rescue". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2000.

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• Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Blessed, Thinking, Funny Things

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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