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World Quotes - Page 701

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

"Pamela Anderson launches animal charity at Cannes" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2014.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.96, Ouida

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

Ouida (1889). “Chandos. Randolph Gordon. Slander and sillery. Blue and yellow. Belles and blackcock. A line in the "Daily"”

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Orson Welles, Bridget Gellert Lyons (1988). “Chimes at Midnight”, p.262, Rutgers University Press

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

"Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". CFIF Interview, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

In a sick world even the hale are sick.

Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing