World Quotes - Page 35

• Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Needs, Want

  Malorie Blackman (2010). “Boys Don't Cry”, p.233, Random House

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• There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honesty, Real, Lying

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• They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.

  Christine Feehan

  Heart, Blood, People

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• The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sick, Being Sick, Sick Man

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

  David Hume

  Eye, Men, Daylight

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1807, Delphi Classics

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• Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Lying, Dark, Men

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• You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fighting, Thinking, Rodents

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.272, Random House

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• I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Home, Oasis

  "Woodsy's World of Star Wars: My Q+A with Fanboys Screenwriter Ernest Cline!!". Interview with Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2011.

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• What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?

  James Patterson

  World Destruction, Peace Love, Lost In Translation

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• To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rain, Eye, Kissing

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rope, Small Words, Ten

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.125, eBookIt.com

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• But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Heart, Eye

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Past, Other Worlds

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.267, Random House

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• Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

  Yukio Mishima

  Jealous, Men, Pearls

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.208, New Directions Publishing

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• ...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

  Yukio Mishima

  Decay, Kind, Purity

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

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• Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.

  Kenneth Oppel

  One Direction, Flying, Together

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• What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Army, Islands

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• Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Thinking, Parent, Sometimes

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.29, Scholastic UK

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• We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

  Colin Meloy

  Beautiful, Children, Pain

  "Wildwood". Book by Colin Meloy, August 30, 2011.

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• It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.

  Lauren Oliver

  Real, School, Two

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.30, HarperCollins

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• Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.

  Kristen Britain

  Opportunity, Our World, Would Be

  Kristen Britain (2007). “The High King's Tomb: Book Three of Green Rider”, p.467, Penguin

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• Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, Satisfaction, Mama

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Two, Together

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.43, Hamilton Books

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