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End Of The World Quotes (page 12)

The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world... Warren Ellis
The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a... C. S. Lewis
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. Jon Meacham
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability. Eisaku Sato
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end. Rumi
The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. Allyson Schwartz
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. Condoleezza Rice
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. Jean Paul
Booker T. Washington quote: "The individual who can do something that the world wants done..."
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race. Booker T. Washington
Andrei A. Gromyko quote: "The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope..."
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. Andrei A. Gromyko
Henry James Sumner Maine quote: "The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world..."
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. Henry James Sumner Maine
Elia Kazan quote: "The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be..."
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. Elia Kazan
Since ever the world was spinning. And till the world shall end. You've your man in the beginning. Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish. And neither nor borrow nor lend. Is what all of the girls are wanting. And none of the gods can send L. M. Montgomery
There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one. Umberto Eco

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