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World Quotes (page 357)

Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "I know there is no straight road No straight road in this..."
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads Federico Garcia Lorca
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease. Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther quote: "Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. Martin Luther
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world. Norman Maclean
Virginia Woolf quote: "As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As..."
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf
Arthur Rimbaud quote: "I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable,..."
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. Arthur Rimbaud
Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world Harry Chapin
Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love — a simple duty. Edgar Allan Poe
Ma? is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he ha? a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best... Lionel Trilling
Boris Pasternak quote: "Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by..."
Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the world. Boris Pasternak
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. C. S. Lewis
Charles de Gaulle quote: "The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be..."
The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided. Charles de Gaulle
Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her. Stephenie Meyer
The fascination of [Joseph Conrad’s] writing lies in a singular blending of reality with romance – he paints a world of strange skies and seas, rivers, forests, men, stranger harbours and ships, all, to our tamed understanding, touched a little by the marvelous. Beyond all modern writers he had lived romance; lived it for many years with a full unconscious pulse, the zest of a young man loving adventure, and before ever he thought to become a writer. How many talents among us are spoiled by... John Galsworthy
What is more, sir," his lordship went on, "I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the 'professionalism' you refer to, sir, I don't care much for it and have no wish to acquire it. Kazuo Ishiguro

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