World Quotes - Page 731
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187
E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Ragtime: A Novel”, p.91, Random House
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.
E. L. Doctorow (1994). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, Perennial
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.34, Random House
may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company
A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.
Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.194, New Directions Publishing
Dorothy Dunnett (1972). “The Ringed Castle”, Vintage