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Worldly Quotes (page 606)

Cormac McCarthy quote: "Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which..."
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. Cormac McCarthy
James Thurber quote: "The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of..."
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream."
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream. Jorge Luis Borges
William Blake quote: "My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I..."
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. William Blake
I believe, Jack, there are two kinds of people in the world. Killers and diers. Most of us are diers. We don't have the dispoisiton, the rage or whatever it takes to be a killer. We le death happen. We lie down and die. But think what it's like to be a killer. Think how exciting it is, in theory, to kill a person in direct confrontation. If he dies, you cannot. To kill him is to gain life-credit. The more people you kill, the more credit you store up. It explains any number of massacres,... Don DeLillo
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929) Albert Einstein
Harry S. Truman quote: "Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the..."
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. Harry S. Truman
We'd hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn't worried much about it, because we'd thought we had all the time in the world. Love had seemed so final and so dull -- love was what ruined our parents. Love had delivered them to a life of mortgage payments and householdrepairs; to unglamorous jobs and the flourescent aisles of a supermarket at two in the afternoon. We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of... Michael Cunningham
We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait. Aiden Wilson Tozer
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. Bill Watterson
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many..."
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. J. R. R. Tolkien
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to... Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world. Toni Morrison
…I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. Franz Kafka

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