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Quotes About World

I just wanted everyone to have one," Finn said, grinning crookedly. "It made me feel better to draw them. And, remember, we're from this world, and we're nice. And so's Other-Natalie. So couldn't this be a heart kind of place if people tried a little harder?" Other
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Chislev does not forbid anything," Atieno replied. "She is not like those stuffy old gods Paladine and Kiri-Jolith, with their rules and lessons. Chislev is the mother of the world. She is the goddess of plants and animals. She bids us, her followers, to rely on our instincts and feelings.
~ Margaret Weis
I have seen love that, through its willingness to sacrifice everything, brought hope to the world. I have seen love that tried to overcome pride and a lust for power, but failed. The world is darker for its failure, but it is only as a cloud dims the sun. The sun—the love, still remains. Finally I have seen love lost in darkness. Love misplaced, misunderstood, because the lover did not know his—or her—own heart.
~ Margaret Weis
have sinned enough against the world," Raistlin said dryly. "Teaching magic to
~ Margaret Weis
Je me souviens mal des jours. L'éclairement solaire ternissait les couleurs, écrasait. Des nuits, je me souviens.Le bleu était plus loin que le ciel, il était derrière toutes les épaisseurs, il recouvrait le fond du monde. Le ciel, pour moi, c'était cette traînée de pure brillance qui traverse le bleu, cette fusion froide au-delà de toute couleur.
~ Marguerite Duras
Il faut éviter de penser à ces difficultés que présente le monde. Sans ça, il deviendrait tout à fait irrespirable.
~ Marguerite Duras
La passion reste en suspens dans le monde, prête à traverser les gens qui veulent bien se laisser traverser par elle.
~ Marguerite Duras
Je me sentais responsable de la beauté du monde.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Adaptar-me-ia dificilmente a um mundo sem livros, mas a realidade não está ali, porque eles não a contêm inteira.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Once I had thought chiefly of the man of letters, the traveler, the poet, the lover; none of that had faded, to be sure, but now for the first time I could see among all those figures, standing out with great clarity of line, the most official and yet the most hidden form of all, that of the emperor. The fact of having lived in a world which is toppling around us had taught me the importance of the Prince.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Vi è più d'una saggezza, e sono tutte necessarie al mondo: non è male che esse si alternino.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.
~ Marian Keyes
Love makes the world go round
~ Marian Keyes
They shared a hostel with other broken, displaced people, from the worst parts of the world.
~ Marian Keyes
You really can change the world if you care enough.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
~ Marianne Williamson
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
~ Marianne Williamson
Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.
~ Marianne Williamson
The only real problem is a lack of love. To address the world's problems on any other level is a temporary palliative—a fix but not a healing, a treatment of the symptom but not a cure.
~ Marianne Williamson
you are not merely a being of the material world; you are a being of unlimited spirit. And in spirit there is no lack. You are not lacking just because your circumstances are.
~ Marianne Williamson
A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone.  The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people.
~ Marianne Williamson
David stood up and said: Sorry Lichtenstein, but I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.
~ Marianne Williamson
The  thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting.  For years, we may have worked for power, money or prestige.  Now all of a sudden we've learned that these are just the values of a dying world.
~ Marianne Williamson