World Quotes - Page 951

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.

It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.

I love the Underworld movies because the vampires arent automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.