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Worldly Quotes (page 163)

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just... Haruki Murakami
Harry S. Truman quote: "The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know."
The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know. Harry S. Truman
Annie Dillard quote: "Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is..."
Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath. Annie Dillard
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years. Bertrand Russell
M. Russell Ballard quote: "The world needs to see that this church, of all organizations..."
The world needs to see that this church, of all organizations on the face of the earth, honors women. M. Russell Ballard
There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world. We could use their anger. And we could use the honest rage of those historians who haven't written a line for forty years. True, we might form classes in thinking and reading. Ray Bradbury
MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together. Oscar Wilde
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen. Louisa May Alcott
The first week of August was a consolatiion, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out, the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. Sue Monk Kidd
There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and Edward all my past. Vera Brittain
Black Elk quote: "It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of..."
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. Black Elk
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds. Stephen King
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me. Anne Bronte
What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. Paulo Coelho

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