Quotes About World

This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate.

This isn't such a beau­ti­ful world that he has to stay in it and suf­fer. This isn't much of a world at all.

Artificial overstimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available.

In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as reckless as animals and fornicated with strangers on the street.

Because the only frontier left is the world of intangibles, ideas, stories, music, art. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

It was just one more pre­dictable mass sui­cide in a world filled with splin­ter groups that limp along un­til they're con­front­ed.

In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television. Spirits spoke to people through what they called the radio.

In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence. Not the fake silence you get when you plug your ears so you hear nothing but your heart, but real out-of-doors silence.

How the agent explained this to me was, we weren't targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most.

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

Il mondo" dice Brandy "è la tua culla e la tua trappola.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world.

Okay, the way I figure it, you're just the subject of an experiment and the whole world you know is just an artificial construct populated by actors who play the roles of everybody in your life, and the weather is just special effects and the sky is painted blue and the landscape everywhere is just a set. Is that it?

Backed by the hellish glare of flames, the doctor proclaimed, "Men in general need to accept their diminished status in the world." Against a backdrop of smoke and shouting, she added, "The impending war, for example, will be an excellent opportunity for them to earn the acclaim they crave.

It's the mark of a very, very young soul," Mr. Whittier used to say, "to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.

We're here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

And one by one, senators disgorge from their vessels, tainting this very nice world with the smug and indulgent cloud of politics and government.

A fully-realized and known world is also a boring world. Mystery, alongside conflict, is another of those  vital vittles that feeds the reader and keeps them hooked. Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason, I say -- so leave lots of questions.

You ever think with the way the world is, it's irresponsible to bring a kid into it? It's like, this fucking president and climate change and god, what else? Antibiotics are failing and they say all the bugs are dying and the coral reefs, too. Countries are building up their nuclear arsenals instead of paring them down. I just…shit, a new kid might be a burden on this world, and this world will sure as hell end up a burden on our kid.

Human sacrifice has power," he said. "The world has long understood that, but now it pretends to know differently—ohh, we're all so buttoned-up, pretending we don't do those things anymore, even though we sacrifice the homeless on our cold streets, or migrant children at the border, or the poor at every turn.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

There were lots of kinds of men in the world. There were lots of kinds of dogs in the world. There were lots of men who acted like dogs in the world.

was suddenly aware, almost in a panic—a joyful panic—of the wealth of possibility out in the world, and also within myself.