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Worldly Quotes (page 620)

What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time Studs Terkel
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.'You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.'Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Harper Lee
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for? W. E. B. Du Bois
Salman Rushdie quote: "A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out..."
A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can. Salman Rushdie
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all. Malcolm Gladwell
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...)Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth. Jeanette Winterson
Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world. A. Whitney Brown
Youth is insolent; it is its right? its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolenc? Joseph Conrad
Orson Scott Card quote: "The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow..."
The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham) Orson Scott Card
Neil Gaiman quote: "The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges."
The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges. Neil Gaiman
Carl Sandburg quote: "There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is..."
There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children. Carl Sandburg
William Shakespeare quote: "Lady, you are the cruel'st she aliveIf you will lead these..."
Lady, you are the cruel'st she aliveIf you will lead these graces to the graveAnd leave the world no copy. William Shakespeare
Ramakrishna quote: "There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely..."
There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely devoted to God. Ramakrishna
The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning. C. S. Lewis
Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger... My responsibility as an artist is to help people get past 21... The films are a roadmap through emotional and intellectual terrain that provides a solution on how to save pain. John Cassavetes

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