Quotes About World

There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,Snow swept the world from end to end.A candle burned on the table;A candle burned.

Pierre Castaneda has always taken good care of his image. I've known him a long time. Even his small everyday gestures show that he comes from another world, and in that world of conquerors, he deserves fear and respect. How can I explain this impression he gives of always putting on a show? To be at the same time himself and someone else, amongst us and elsewhere?

Only the optimist looks wisely on life. Though the actual world is not to his liking, it is the happiness of the optimist to carry a nobler in his thought.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then— click —a world opens.

More than anything in this world, trauma has been the source behind the greatest acts of transformation and creativity.

Missionaries have righteous goals and are trying to make the world a better place. Mercenaries are out for money and power and will run over anyone who gets in the way.

this is not only the largest river in the world, it's many times larger than the next biggest river. it blows all other rivers away.

Hands in plain view approaching a high school. What a world.

Of course you can't know. But you play the odds. You save who you can and you mourn those you can't. When you follow this calling, your heart gets ripped apart every day. You make the world better in increments, not grand designs. You make choices. Do you understand?

You," Win would tell him, "have a hero complex. You think you can make the world better. You are Don Quixote tilting at windmills." "And you?" "I'm eye candy for the ladies." Win.

She flipped on the radio and tried to listen to angry talk radio. The hosts always had such easy answers to the world's problems. Kat found their simplicity irritating and thus their shows, in an odd way, wonderfully distracting. Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all. When

Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.

Sometimes it seems to me the modern world can only be viewed as conspiracy. The Right tends to credit communism with planning race riots and campus disorders

Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening onward until it brings down the person it loves best, and its world as well.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards to the literary scene. The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature.

If plants are so well endowed with their own natural pesticides, then why isn't the world littered with the corpses of their victims?

It's cold here; I have a sparrow in a box with his foot frozen off; I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill him as I cannot keep him in that box & he can't possibly live if I turn him loose. This is a tough world for lots of people, including sparrows.10

I just don't like my world disturbed without some warning.

she would have pondered over the meaninglessness of silent, austere beauty renewing itself with every sunrise and going ungazed at by half the world.

She heard her father's voice, a tiny voice talking in the warm comfortable past. Gentlemen, if there's one slogan in this world I believe, it is this: equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

When you live in New York, you often have the feeling that New York's not the world. I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Maycomb it's like leaving the world.

I just don't like my world disturbed without warning.