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Quotes About World

Tesla understood the universe, he just didn't understand the world.
~ Jeff Smith
Gotta kill the monster before you bring a kid into the world.
~ Jeff Strand
I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
~ Jeff Tweedy
My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh. Beetles intended for the tough, tight minds of children should not be used by adults. We still remember a kinder, gentler world.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
We must love what has been damaged, because everything has been damaged. And to love the damage is to know you care about that world. That you're still alive. That the world is alive.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. *
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I think this is an asylum. But so is the rest of the world.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The gods are here, if they are anywhere at all in the world.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Perhaps, too, hesitance overtakes me because when I think of writing I glimpse the world I left behind.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Imagine that this communication sometimes lends a sense of the uncanny to the landscape because of the narcissism of our human gaze, but that it is just part of the natural world here.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary; we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.
~ Eknath Easwaran
The way to come to tolerate and then enjoy being involved in the world is by being in the world.
~ Elaine N. Aron
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
~ Elaine Scarry
It is the intense pain that destroys a person's self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe.
~ Elaine Scarry
I wish I could prescribe her--and buy her--as I would a box of pills;--though if there gets to be many of her in the world, you and I might as well go to ribbon-selling and ditch-digging for all the money we'd get out of nursing and doctoring
~ Eleanor H. Porter
The instrument that you play on, Pollyanna, will be the great heart of the world; and to me that seems the most wonderful instrument of all—to learn. Under your touch, if you are skilful, it will respond with smiles or tears, as you will.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
He [Kafka] did not have for his private and interior processes that disregard which distinguishes insignificant writers from writers of imagination. A person who thinks that he is empowered to separate his inner world from the outer one has no inner world from which something might be separable.
~ Elias Canetti
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
~ Elie Wiesel
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
~ Elie Wiesel
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. THE
~ Elie Wiesel
Tek Gözlü Paritus Kelimeler ÅŸark? söylemeye koyulduÄŸunda dans etmeye baÅŸlar?m. diyordu. Gamaliel'in çevresinde ise dans eden dünya. O,dans etmeyi hiç öÄŸrenmedi.
~ Elie Wiesel
For today, thanks to recently discovered documents, the evidence shows that in the early days of their accession to power, the Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed: they decided to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would seem never to have existed
~ Elie Wiesel
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria …" His voice broke. "Father
~ Elie Wiesel