Quotes About World

I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.

Then Belmont discovered the carnival world of Louisiana politics, in the way a mental patient might wander into a theme park for the insane and realize that life held more promise than he had ever dreamed. Burke, James Lee. Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux Book 11)

If you have attended the dying, you know what their last moments are like. They anticipate the separation of themselves from the world of the living before you do, and they accept it with dignity and without complaint

But I do believe there are people in our midst who wish to make a graveyard of the world, and their motivation may be no more complex than that of an angry child flinging scat because he was left with regularity in a dirty diaper.

Either way, it was a grand afternoon, one that presaged an even better evening and access to all the fruits the world had to offer.

I won't try to argue with your experience and what you've shaped out of it. But the world isn't a jail. We just make our own sometimes. Does that make any sense to you?

beautiful street in the Western world.

symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.

The great gift of age is the realization that each morning is a blessing, as votive in nature as a communion wafer raised to the sky. I made a habit of letting the world go on a daily basis, but unfortunately, it didn't want to let go of me.

the sadness, the suspicion, the weariness, the knowledge that came from living a special misery in a world of misery.

Them fellers was dangerous, but for the simple reason they had a cause. Ain't no worse thing in the world than fronting up against one of those, for a man with a cause, right or wrong, has got plenty to prove, and will make you suck sorrow if you get in the way of 'em wrongly.

Nothing in the world is normal," he said. "I can't understand why you'd even hope for that." His comment sent the anger hissing out of her like a balloon, and her features softened. She eyed him with curiosity, then wiped the edge of her eye with the back of her hand and shifted her weight.

The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view . . . that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22

Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.

He loved life. He loved the stars silently glowing down at him tonight. He loved even the gray, lifeless rock, which recalled to his imaginative genius the terrific and interesting life that had once existed--he loved the ghostly majesty of the grave-like pinnacle that rose above him, and beyond that he loved all the world. But most of all, more than his own life or all that a thousand lives might hold for him, he loved the violet-eyed girl.

And yet I'm sure, Cheeser, that in this world of ours, science doesn't hold the only key; it only unlocks one of the doors – and perhaps the side door at that.

In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny is to be killed or to save the world. Okay, not really. But there should be.

Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world! Max: (Raises her eyebrows) Gazzy: Not that I would want to, of course, (coughs)

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?

He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.

Basically, if you put a fence around New York City, you'd have the world's biggest nontraveling circus.

Robinson sat up and peered out at the lawn. I had no idea you were so deprived. They're the best bugs in the world because they can light up their butts. It's how they find mates

Justice doesn't necessarily make the world a better place. Compassion always does.