World Quotes - Page 38

• Who runs the world? Girls.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Running, Badass Women

  Song: Run The World, Album: 4, 2011

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• The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

  David Mitchell

  People, Stories, Use

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.378, Vintage

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• Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

  Fannie Flagg

  Real, Daddy, Waiting

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• Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?

  Erich von Däniken

  Jesus, Art, Stars

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• Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Men, Forgotten

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• Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Children, Eye, Fire

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• Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

  John Green

  Water, Computer, Augustus

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• When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

  Sophie Kinsella

  Get Better, Needs, Confession

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• Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

  Daniel Handler

  Circles, People, Doe

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• In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dust, Data, Numbers

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• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moon, People, Waiting

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• No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

  Franz Kafka

  Depressing, Lying, Views

  Franz Kafka (2016). “The Trial”, p.175, Franz Kafka

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• People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Reality, People, Important

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• One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Giving, Bird

  "The Idiot".

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• A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

  Rachel Simon

  Fighting, Fists, Embrace

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• When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

  Russell Brand

  Falling In Love, Love You, Focus

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• Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Escaping, Doors, Skills

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• You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Important, Prove It

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• In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care.

  Alex Scarrow

  Stars, War, Light

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 201.

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• Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

  Christopher Nolan

  Dark, Curves, Knights

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Not exactly. I see a girl who wants to present someone special to the world. Someone beautiful. The pinnacle of beauty. But she has lost her hold on reality. Real beauty isn’t thin. It isn’t size two, unless you happen to be four foot ten. What the world sees when they look at you is someone who believes self-worth is all about how she looks, and that very often means that what she’s missing is love. Not someone else’s love. But love and respect for herself.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Girl, Real

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• Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

  Josh Groban

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Weight

  Song: You Are Loved, Album: Awake, 2006

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• You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone." — Kate Daniels

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Giving, Empathy

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.68, Penguin

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• Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

  Alex Haley

  Boys, Mouths, Way

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sea, Saws, Strange

  Wallace Stevens (2005). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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