Quotes About Worlds

My brothers and I were not encouraged to search for God, the obvious source of solace, but we three kids were led to the world of books, which to us was just as good. We found in books the divine plop, the joy of settling down deeply into something, worlds and realities greater than our own troubled minds.

What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

fragrance was the sharpest trigger of memory, a transport into forgotten worlds.

I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

He's a big, goofy dreamer, too, just like me. He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life. So I draw cartoons to make him happy, to give him other worlds to live inside. I draw his dreams. And he only talks about his dreams with me. And I only talk about my dreams with him.

What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds.

But who can quantify the algebra of space, or weigh those worlds that swim each in its place? Who can outdo the dark? And what computer knows how beauty comes to birth - shell star and rose? -Technicians by Jean Kenward

There is also a running wobble between extreme precision, specious or otherwise, and approximation ("just over fifteen hundred", "just over sixty-nine percent"), so the whole risks annoying non-geek and ultra-geek readers, garnering the worst of both worlds.

Mallory's face went briefly vague, as those of Exalts could do when they consulted their internal worlds.

His pilots. And no, frankly, just his pathway to other worlds, but personal friends, all three of them.

If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child.

ISLANDS are worlds in miniature or, as the writer David Quammen observed, "almost a caricature of nature's full complexity." By this account, One Tree is a caricature of a caricature.

Nobody but the residents would call this sector the Hub Worlds, unless they thought the rest of the wheel had fallen off.

I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned.

Not unseated, Not even touched By the shocks of sickness, Gods stand worlds from men.

too many fantasy novels

exploring new worlds, but I feel secure in the warmth of their love.

This effect is so robust that it even occurs in virtual worlds, as in the "Corrupted Blood" plague that ravaged World of Warcraft in September 2005.

When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-color'd life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

The Family/Sygn conflict is in the process of creating a schism throughout the entire galaxy, concerning just what exactly a woman is . And it may mean that instead of one universe with six thousand worlds in it, we will have a universe with one group of some thousands of worlds and another group of some thousands of others, and no connection between the two save memories of murder, starvation, and violence. And in a situation like that, no, you do not just simply decide to up and change sides!

And on the worlds of five galaxies, now, people delve your imagery and meaning for the answers to the riddles of language, love, and isolation." The three words jumped his sentence like vagabonds on a boxcar.

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away.