Worldly Quotes (page 161)

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• learning
• time
• old

What you learn as you get older is that the world is old, and has been old for a long time. John Crowley

• winter
• world
• winters

Still ... in this world only winter is certain. George R. R. Martin

• kids
• lost
• suits

Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of the ashes. The kid didn’t answer. The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didnt make it to suit everbody, did he? I don’t believe he much had me in mind. Cormac McCarthy

• sea
• world
• water

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there. Edwidge Danticat

• world
• two
• thing

There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics. Werner Erhard

• today
• end
• world

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles M. Schulz

• culture
• world
• book

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom of a particular culture or tribe. It is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games. Steven Pinker

• dream
• she
• world

she is in a world of private dreams , not here with us ! Charlotte Bronte

• play
• giving
• war

He won all those medals in the Second World War, which was staged by robots so that Dwayne Hoover could give a free-will reaction to such a holocaust. The war was such an extravaganza that there was scarcely a robots anywhere who didn't have a part to play. Harold Newcomb Wilbur got his medals for killing Japanese, who were yellow robots. They were fueled by rice. Kurt Vonnegut

• wishes
• manly
• world

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith

• broken
• end
• world

The world breaks everyone; but, in the end, people are stronger at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

• life
• happy
• work

I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world. W. Somerset Maugham

• people
• communication
• mistake

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely. Paulo Coelho

• she
• women strength
• women

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this. Rudyard Kipling

• world
• you are loved
• god

M'amour, m'amour what do I love and where are you? That I lost my center fighting the world The Dreams clash and are shattered- and that I tried to make a paradiso terrestre. I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. Ezra Pound