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World Quotes (page 429)

There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to... Colleen McCullough
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. Rem Koolhaas
Rudyard Kipling quote: "More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the..."
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. Rudyard Kipling
They were given the chance of becoming kings or the kings' messengers. As is the way with children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why there are only messengers, racing through the world and, since there are no kings, calling out to each other the messages have now become meaningless. Franz Kafka
I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. Harry Crews
Ernest Hemingway quote: "My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with..."
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world. Ernest Hemingway
Thus far then have we travelled along the terrible road we chose at the call of duty. The mood of Britain is wisely and rightly averse from every form of shallow or premature exultation. This is no time for boasts or glowing prophecies, but there is this: A year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate to all eyes but our own. To-day we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls. Winston Churchill
I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath. Wilkie Collins
Neal A. Maxwell quote: "The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically..."
The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. Neal A. Maxwell
Sue Grafton quote: "The world is full of talented people."
The world is full of talented people. Sue Grafton
Stanislaw Lem quote: "I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I..."
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet. Stanislaw Lem
We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.“ Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas in “Odd Apocalypse Dean Koontz
Allen Ginsberg quote: "...my man world will blow up"
...my man world will blow up Allen Ginsberg
Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable. Bad men... destroy one another, although... they prefer those who are innocent and as pure as this world allows them to be. They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good. Dean Koontz
the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals. Dean Koontz

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