World Quotes - Page 39

• I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, Happy Times, People

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• Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Hands, Southern

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• The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Holiday, Storm

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

  Julian Barnes

  Eye, Elderly, Saws

  Julian Barnes (2010). “England, England”, p.258, Random House

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• Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Weight, Earth, Spirit

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• I do not fear invisible worlds.

  Ivo Andric

  Invisible, Do Not Fear

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• When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

  Donald Miller

  Fall, Men, Miracle

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Ugly, Normal, Extremes

  Scott Westerfeld (2005). “Uglies”

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• She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.

  Tessa Dare

  Past, Imperfect Person, Events

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• The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Self, Skins, Safe

  "Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Gregory Rabassa (p. 279), 1970.

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• No worries.You go save the world.I'm gonna finish getting a cavity.

  Kiersten White

  Worry, No Worries, Save The World

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• She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Children, Eye, Light

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Apr 04, 2012

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• Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Heart, Broken, Wilderness

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.549, Delphi Classics

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• Do real and permanent good in this world.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Real, This World, Permanent

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.24, Penguin

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• "Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
  "I want to be a soldier. A hero."
  "You'll grow out of it."

  Steven Erikson

  Hero, Boys, Decisions You Make

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.5, Random House

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• Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Fantasy, Skeptical

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Self, Individuality, Silent

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1997). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.106, Wordsworth Editions

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• Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heaven, Demon, Fray

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1114, Simon and Schuster

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• I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Simple, Dying, Words Love

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• As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Love At First Sight, Cameras

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Home, Should Have

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly".

  Gerard Way

  Trying, Ugly, Clean

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• Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Daughter, Husband

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. "The circus arrives without warning.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Fall, Heart, Tangled

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• Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

  David Abram

  Taken, Perception, Ongoing

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.58, Vintage

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