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This World Quotes (page 81)

Virginia Woolf quote: "This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all,..."
This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Virginia Woolf
Nina Simone quote: "This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live..."
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it. Nina Simone
Michael Ondaatje quote: "This was the time in her life that she fell upon booksas the..."
This was the time in her life that she fell upon booksas the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. Michael Ondaatje
This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Reason and Dr. Experience, and took a voyage to visit my mother Nature, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. Diligence, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by Mr. Honesty, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it. Nicholas Culpeper
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them. Alice Munro
This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water. Russell Brand
This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed. Groucho Marx
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! Charles Dickens
This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but... David Foster Wallace
This is what I wanted. If I believe I will win then victory will believe in me. No life is complete without a touch of madness, or to use J.'s words. What I need to do is reconquer my kingdom. If I can understand what's going on in the world, I can understand what's going on inside myself. Paulo Coelho
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead."
This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead. Chuck Palahniuk
this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ..."~~Barack Obama upon winning the Democratic nomination for presidency conveys his thinking of what that means ....for the world, Tuesday, JUNE 03, 2008 Barack Obama
This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home, his family, his friends, his city, his country, his world: a being without context, whose past had faded, whose future was bleak, an entity stripped of name, of meaning, of the whole of life except a temporarily beating heart. Salman Rushdie
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. Kurt Vonnegut
John Adams quote: "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were..."
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams

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