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Worldly Quotes (page 259)

Thomas Merton quote: "The end of the world will be legal."
The end of the world will be legal. Thomas Merton
E. L. Doctorow quote: "It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed..."
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. E. L. Doctorow
The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." "As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe...Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes. Don DeLillo
...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him... Don DeLillo
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand..."
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience..."
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. Cormac McCarthy
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. Kurt Vonnegut
turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun. William Shakespeare
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! Christopher Marlowe
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done. Ayn Rand
Woody Allen quote: "There is no question that there is an unseen world. The..."
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? Woody Allen
Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever. Michael Crichton
Taylor Swift quote: "I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world..."
I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :) Taylor Swift
And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco. Jack Kerouac
If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray

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