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World Quotes (page 378)

Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me. Michael Frayn
Olive Schreiner quote: "We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have..."
We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. Olive Schreiner
No life can be free from the storms of adversity unless that family and that home are built on foundations of morality, fidelity, and mutual respect. There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty. The warm sunlight of love will not rise out of a swamp of immorality. …Is there a valid case for virtue in our world? It is the only way to freedom from regret. The peace of conscience which flows therefrom is the only personal peace that is not... Gordon B. Hinckley
Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world. Margaret Atwood
Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew that no one could hurt him. This was for him an axiom, assumed once and for all without question. And he went his way without hesitation, relying on it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Victor Hugo quote: "The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if..."
The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if he is also a god. Victor Hugo
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C. S. Lewis
Friedrich Schiller quote: "On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect..."
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment. Friedrich Schiller
But ever since he had been a child, he wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing God and learning about man's sins. Paulo Coelho
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Out of your world perhaps, Susan? but not out of mine,' said..."
Out of your world perhaps, Susan? but not out of mine,' said Anne with a faint smile. L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was..."
But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne. L. M. Montgomery
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no... David Foster Wallace
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in..."
For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers. Emily Bronte
Aldous Huxley quote: "In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was..."
In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled. Aldous Huxley

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