logo

Quotes About World

I travel your body, like the world, your belly is a plaza full of sun, your breasts two churches where blood performs its own parallel rites, my glances cover you like ivy
~ Octavio Paz
Para realizarse, el amor necesita quebrantar la ley del mundo. En nuestro tiempo el amor es escándalo y desorden, transgresión: el de dos astros que rompen la fatalidad de sus órbitas y se encuentran en la mitad del espacio.
~ Octavio Paz
Las ideas de que las almas se buscan en este mundo por las relaciones que tuvieron antes de descender a la tierra y encarnar en un cuerpo, también es de la estirpe platónica: es la reminiscencia.
~ Octavio Paz
Eres tan sólo un sueño, pero en ti sueña el mundo y su mudez habla con tus palabras.
~ Octavio Paz
1. In the nuclear age, mankind must develop a new political thinking and a new concept of the world that provides sound guarantees for the survival of mankind. 2. The world we have inherited belongs to present and future generations alike—hence we must give priority to universal human values. 3. Human life must be acknowledged [as] the supreme value. 4. Non-violence must become the basis of human co-existence.7
~ Odd Arne Westad
A new book is very much like a child. Sooner or later it must go out into the world and succeed or fail on its own, usually leaving behind one or two loving people filled with concern and guilt and wondering if they had truly done all they could have to prepare their issue for the cruel marketplace of life.
~ Og Mandino
This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.
~ Olive Schreiner
I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The nakedness of the indignant world may be cloathed from the trimmings of the vain.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I believe in the meaning of honor and integrity. I am an action person who feels personally responsible for making any changes in this world that are in my power . . . because if I don't, no one else will. — Mike Spann, excerpt from his CIA application
~ Oliver North
Guy had a moral strength but it resembled one of those vast Victorian feats of engineering: impressive but out of place in the modern world.
~ Olivia Manning
HE ALWAYS KNEW THE LAYERED GRIEF OF THE WORDL AS ITS PLEASURES.
~ Ondaatje Michael.
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
~ Oprah Winfrey
All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than seeing the world with words. From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.
~ Orhan Pamuk
it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room
~ Orhan Pamuk
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Mutlulukla bir dünyay? seyrettim, Canan, seni severek...
~ Orhan Pamuk
ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind. MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Çünkü içinizde kalbinize nakÅŸeylediÄŸiniz bir sevgilinin yüzü ya??yorsa eÄŸer, dünya hala sizin evinizdir.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Virgüllerle koÅŸard?m, noktalarla duraklar, ünlemlerde ÅŸaÅŸard?m! Ne kadar ÅŸa??rt?c?yd? kitaplarda, haritalarda dünya!
~ Orhan Pamuk