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World Quotes (page 430)

Paulo Coelho quote: "Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the..."
Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Paulo Coelho
Robert Ludlum quote: "The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that..."
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. Robert Ludlum
There was all the difference in the world between this planning airily away from the canvas and actually taking her brush and making the first mark. Virginia Woolf
It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns. Rick Warren
He loved her as he had never loved another, and he trusted her as he had allowed himself to trust no one else. But by the nature of the world, those who loved and trusted were uniquely vulnerable Dean Koontz
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy. - The Kindly Ones Anthony Powell
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine. Arundhati Roy
Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the pavement, still warm from the previous day’s sun. I started walking. In bare feet, I traveled upriver toward the place where I was born and will someday die. At that moment, if you had broken open my heart you could have looked inside and seen the thin white skeletons of one thousand salmon. Sherman Alexie
Katharine Hepburn quote: "He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single..."
He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world. Katharine Hepburn
Paulo Coelho quote: "What is a Gift?"A Gift is your way of serving the world."
What is a Gift?"A Gift is your way of serving the world. Paulo Coelho
There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work to raise himself in the social scale, hadfilled him with such an exalted conviction of his merits that it was extremely difficult for the world to treat him with justic? the standard of that notion depending so much upon the patience of the individual. The Professor had genius, but lacked the great social virtue of resignation. Joseph Conrad
In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. Anderson Cooper
The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. Malcolm Gladwell
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a..."
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. Henry David Thoreau
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults? Albert Camus

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