World Quotes - Page 811

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

No critic ever changed the world.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

I like having the vinyl, but it's not like we're going to sell an umbrella or something. I don't like the idea of selling something that's not music - I mean, I like going to shows and buying the shirt, but beyond that, I don't know. There's a lot of crap in the world.

We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.

Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. —Luthe

But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.