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1698ae6 Asa-i de cand lumea, ca cine se introspecteaza prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine insusi, in cele din urma, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine insusi, acela nu-i capabil sa ia o hotarare. capability decision introspection world Henryk Sienkiewicz
d85812a Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world. world Herman Melville
af05817 "I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")" -- blind experiences gender human-being oppression question silencing systems talking woman world Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
f5a101d Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything. nobody-had-time world Tom Perrotta
4530a51 A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible! p334 the-thin-executioner views world Darren Shan
451598b Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole? hubris mankind mastery perspective world Michel de Montaigne
36d72d0 The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. evil life nature peace world Gregory Maguire
406a1e2 That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. good-and-evil humanity infectious-diseases summary ugliness world Don DeLillo
fa7afeb It's so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that 'the world' is mundanely 'a planet.' The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project. planet science world Douglas Coupland
a92c959 "Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death? blue-eyes breath death eyes fireflies light night sight spirit stars world Madeleine L'Engle
3b54aa5 As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear. It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason. adulterers afterlife alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt astronomy charles-darwin children-science darwin david-hume draper ernst-haeckel fear geology haeckel herbert-spencer humboldt hume john-draper john-tyndall john-william-draper knowledge mind murderers paine persecutors poison power prejudice propositions reason spencer stupidity sublime theologian theologians theology thomas-paine tyndall vilify voltaire wilhelm-humboldt wilhelm-von-humboldt world Robert G. Ingersoll
50d70d6 But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it. letting-go life moving-on optimism reality waiting world Lois Lowry
f401973 If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains. sublime travel unfair world Alain de Botton
e3c1003 Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you. lovers romance scientist search swashbuckling world Eoin Colfer
191e551 For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are the selfsame tale and contain as well all within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. life stories world Cormac McCarthy
adb49e6 I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy. hard-boiled wonderland world Haruki Murakami
60812a9 And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He his in its breast, fingered its earth for food, clung to its banks to lap water and tried not to love it. On nights when the sky was personal, weak with the weight of its own stars, he made himself not love it. Its graveyards and its low-lying rivers. Or just a house - solitary under a chinaberry tree; maybe a mule tethered and the light hitting its hide just so. Anything could stir him and he tried hard not to love it. earth love paul-d slavery world Toni Morrison
8567afd Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works. life science world Julie Andrews Edwards
20d9d3c When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes. forgiveness journey life world Orson Scott Card
011eade Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves. mess wait world Jodi Picoult
aeaf910 I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother. clean like world Anthony Burgess
f3108ec "who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world." life meaning purpuse world Orson Scott Card
9fcbc22 I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. plays world Annie Dillard
1d154f8 A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment. learning life responsibility shoulders warrior world Paulo Coelho
4a61431 Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self. activated ancient bedrock brain busy cerebral-cortex deeper experiences gray-matter hearing journey language noisy reading self silence sound structures subcortical thought world Michael Finkel
783cfd6 Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not. Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. and-the-mountains-echoed beauty cruel dreams hope khaled-hosseini pain plastic-surgeon sorrows superficial unfair unfairness-of-life world Khaled Hosseini
aee6170 I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others. nature spiritual world Elizabeth Gilbert
25253cc "For a moment he could do nothing but close his eyes. Was this a taste of the rest of his life as Billie Bridgerton's husband? Was he destined to live in terror, wondering what sort of danger she'd thrown herself into that day? Was it worth it? "George?" she whispered. She sounded uneasy. Had she seen something in his expression? A sign of doubt? He touched her cheek, and he looked into her eyes. He saw his whole world there. "I love you," he said. Someone gasped. It might have been his mother. "I cannot live without you," he said, "and in fact, I refuse to do so. So no, you will not be going on some ill-advised mission to the coast to hand off a potentially dangerous package to people you don't know. Because if anything happened to you..." His voice broke, but he didn't care. "If anything happened to you, it would kill me. And I'd like to think you love me too much to let that happen." Billie stared at him in wonder, her softly parted lips trembling as she blinked back tears. "You love me?" she whispered. He nearly rolled his eyes. "Of course I do." "You never said." "I must have done." "You didn't. I would have remembered." "I would remember, too," he said softly, "if you'd ever said it to me." "I love you," she said immediately. "I do. I love you so much. I --" "Thank God," Lady Manston exclaimed. George and Billie both turned." doubt happiness love world Julia Quinn
08275af The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. library world Alberto Manguel
3fd8251 Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others. microcosm world Louis L'Amour
8f9e059 The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil. changeless disguise evil good struggle world T.S. Eliot
9fe2a46 The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. inspirational wisdom world Paulo Coelho
c6fbe44 In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brother's old blue Camaro car and the smell of coal dust in the rainy sky of a summer lightning storm. ...And all the nice bright colors of the past that she thought were gone for good came flowing back into her life like a wave of nostalgia flooding over her, reds, yellows, blues and greens drenching her gray memories in psychedelic ribbons and glittering fireworks. ...She hoped that the world would always hold those miniscule yet beautiful, deep and mysterious traces of memory. beautiful bright colors earth found-footage kodak memory mystery nostalgia rurl world Rebecca McNutt
987ddae To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world. talk wicked world Margaret Mitchell
af5203e There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it's not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren't born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at. television truth world David Mitchell
d5e93ad The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear. world Jeanette Winterson
8cd80a3 And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy. earth galaxy planet solar-system world Robert Ludlum
b8b5354 When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. first-lines night parental-love post-apocalypse world Cormac McCarthy
ac4dfac In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. father government helpless helplessness impotence impotent law letter life responsibility streets willing willingness world Cormac McCarthy
98a01e0 - Vzemete koito shchete moriak, gazil v d'lboki vodi i sreshchal sm'rtta tolkova p'ti, kolkoto men, drasnete go s nok't po kozhata i otdolu shche namerite filosof. Zasukanite dumi shche sa mu chuzhdi, garantiram vi, no shche namerite d'lbok i traen uset za miastoto mu v sveta. bulgaria bulgarian feist filosofia life philosopher philosophy place raymond sea world амос бард българия български война живот магьосник майстор more място разлом реймънд saga фийст философ Raymond E. Feist
7b64569 The world of most men is given to them by their culture.. man world Richard Wright
0ee0f4b The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects. projection relational-nature self subject subjectivity world Maurice Merleau-Ponty
49b06bd ... I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow. hurt treat-her-right vow world Markus Zusak
7e28141 There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. life vindictive world Stefan Zweig
4b795b6 It will never end. Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our land, and for our homes. Some Christians speak of peace, of the evil of war, and who does not want peace? But then some crazed warrior comes screaming his god's filthy name into your face and his only ambitions are to kill you, to rape your wife, to enslave your daughters, and take your home, and so you must fight. chaos christians daughters end enslave evil face fight god home kill must name peace ragnarok rape take war warrior wife world Bernard Cornwell
7c9082f In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thing like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. life-lessons people stress world Emma Donoghue
4b733ca The world is what it is, and you are what you are. mario-puzo the-last-don wisdom world Mario Puzo
dfc9edf Love is all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world... quote shopaholic world Sophie Kinsella
6889189 The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game. game genius life live truth war world Orson Scott Card
b45c836 You view the world from a model. world Nassim Nicholas Taleb
dd8b2b1 The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is (21). nature philosophy sight world Annie Dillard
fff2f51 Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations. religions world Tad Williams
2f057d7 In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world. (Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt) bet franz franz-kafka kafka max-brody struggle unpublished world zurau Franz Kafka
4f5cca4 There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that travel world Jonathan Safran Foer
90d145b That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb. passivity world Arthur C. Clarke
720ac3d Not a clue - and, no, I don't touch drugs. The world's unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks. drugs kicks unstable world David Mitchell
d583356 "But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spider's webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." predator prey spider spider-web trap world Neil Gaiman
81417b0 This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain. birthing bomb dark necessary nothing obvious older pain starving suffering terrible torture vain waste wasted world John Fowles
0b49345 We'll go on the river. He looked at the old railroad tracks. Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to put things into ourselves. And some day, after it sets in us a long time, it'll come out our hands and our mouths. And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now...I'll hold onto the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning. start world Ray Bradbury
1723b39 For this cause...for this privilege...you were born--to shine lights into the world for God. elizabeth-george god shine women world Elizabeth George
0d298ea He touched her cheek, and he looked into her eyes. He saw his whole world there eyes love world Julia Quinn
b769edb The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it. change choice future world Juliet Marillier
33444c3 "I was the nicest person you'd ever want to know," Alex recalls, "but the world wasn't that way. The problem was that if you were just a nice person, you'd get crushed. I refused to live a life where people could do that stuff to me." life nice person world Susan Cain
381f9e9 she would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden. horizon other-side world Alan Brennert
86820c5 One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end excitement fear ocean whale wild world Douglas Coupland
65b0769 "Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed. "It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over." "Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anything." "Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were bothered? About something important, about something real?" books bother create creation creativity destruction ignorance important kerosene life lifetime observation real reality reality-check thought time work world Ray Bradbury
43ac554 "Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.' 'The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jesus died; Asklepios died - they killed Mani worse than they killef jesus, but nobody even cares; nobody even remembers. They killed the Catharist in southern France by the tens of thousands. In the Thirty Years War, hundreds of people died. Protestants and Catholics - manual slaughter. Death is the real name for it; not God, not the Savior, not love - death. Kevin is rights about his cat. It's all there in his dead cat. The Great Judge can't answer Kevin: "Why did my cat die?" Answer: "Damned i I knoe." There is no answer; there is only a dead animal that just wanted to cross the street. We're all animals that want to cross the street only something mows us down half-way across that we never saw. Go ask Kevin. "Your cat was stupid." "Who made the cat? Why did he make the cat stupid? Did the cat learn by being killed, and if so, what did he learn? Did Sherri learn anything from dying of cancer? did gloria learn anything-' 'Okay, enough,' Fat said. 'Kevin is right,' I said. 'Go out and get laid.' god human-nature humanity irrationality life religion science-fiction spirituality world Philip K. Dick
5322620 "Oh, I'm Chrissy Mackenzie, I'm from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism," the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. "You got any advice?" "Search me," Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. "I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it's in favor of all that "go green" hippie crap." "Oh, well...." Chrissy seemed taken aback, offended, and Mandy sighed a fourth time. "Damn it, I'm really sorry," she apologized, smiling dismally at the aspiring writer. "It's just been a really lousy day for me and I wasn't really thinking. My advice? Find your own cause to represent, not one thrown out into society by a ton of environmentalist dopes. Find something new, something you think could be improved, and work from there." Chrissy smiled with a look of total ecstasy as if the words of some nobody woman were important. Mandy momentarily noticed the groups of laughing, drunk, giggling people, all acting childish... and for a moment she wished she could be them." cape-breton change drea drunk environmntal friend gol hippie hope ice-cube improve journalist joy nova-scotia peace pollution sad vancouver world Rebecca McNutt
8e189a5 "I don't want anything else bad to happen," she whispered, her voice choked with tears. "I'm so sick to death of bad things happening, of seeing bad things that happened in the past! And I'm guilty of so many things. I'm sorry that I killed Mrs. Matthias and wrecked her stupid greenhouse back in the Eighties and I'm sorry I left you here alone while I went around the world." "I wasn't alone though, I knew you were doing what you wanted to do and that you were still alive, so I wasn't really alone, I knew you were still there somewhere," Alecto told her. His damaged smile and downcast, sorrowful eyes were draped in the shadow of the night, saving Mandy the trouble of seeing." apart bad crying damaged death eighties friend friendship greenhouse grief guilt hopelessness lonliness love murder omen shadow smile sorrow tears together travel trouble world Rebecca McNutt
9d72153 Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You've finished teething and there's the world: crack it open if you can. merchants thinking-for-yourself world Dorothy Dunnett
bb93cb2 Great artists make the entire world their home. travel world Chaim Potok
284a09b How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything? powerless sadness suffering ugliness why world Gustave Flaubert
da1b5b6 "She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly." cigarette dragging line live loud mind music noise noisy place question quiet radio smoking song thinking thought tommy-james world Rebecca McNutt
e980ccc And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home. amy-martin atu-series centauri-earth home new-place planet shades-of-earth truth world Beth Revis
4253241 Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the world. He had escaped from the old world and he hated to feel that he was being drawn back to share a common destiny with the rest of mankind. americans isolationism planet world H.G. Wells
f04927c "This sense of insecurity was falling about the entire planet and though people went on doing the things they usually did, they had none of the assurance, the happy-go-lucky "all-right" feeling, that had hitherto sustained normal men. They went on doing their customary things because they could not think of anything else to do. They tried to believe, and many did succeed in believing, that there would presently be a turn for the better. They did nothing to bring about that turn for the better; they just hoped it would occur." insecurity society world H.G. Wells
6086dc3 The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive? heartache hoplessness pain world Arthur Golden
d1563b4 Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that's not a good thing! fantasy fantasy-world good imagination mental-illness psychology recluse world Rebecca McNutt
4fd9e52 Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it. media news newspaper sensationalism tragedy world Rebecca McNutt
54a54f2 In her mind's eye, they seemed to glimmer until the connections had so many ties that the world appeared to be brighter. It was a golden light in her mind. light ocean summer sunset world Sharon Brubaker
23f296b Some folk learned the nature of God, that He was merciful, having spared a husband or some cattle, that He was strict, having meted out hard punishment for small sins, that He was attentive, having sent signs of the hunger beforehand, that He was just, having sent the hunger in the first place, or having sent the whales and the teeming reindeer in the end. Some folk learned that He was to be found in the world-in the richness of the grass and the pearly beauty of the Heavens, and others learned that He could not be found in the world, for the world is always wanting, and God is completion. learning life wisdom world Jane Smiley
3f53f50 For all the things we've seen... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it? world Tad Williams
5294d80 "She's leaving me!" "Leaving? She's been waiting for you to get your shit together." I step into him. "That Hunter bastard is offering her the world! What do I got to give? Nothing. I've got nothing." Isaiah slams his finger into my biceps. "She looks at you like you're the whole universe! I'd kill to have a sliver with Beth of what you have with Echo. Wake the f*ck up!" I pound my hand to my chest, mimicking the pain slicing it. "Echo's leaving me." "No, man. You're the one leaving her," he seethes. "Get it together or she will walk." isaiah leaving noah-hutchins offer universe world Katie McGarry
d84149b Contact with the world, with which I have been steadily rubbing shoulders now for fourteen months, makes me feel more and more like returning to my shell. I hate the crowd, the herd. It seems to me always atrociously stupid or vile. shell stupid vile world Gustave Flaubert
be6fa37 Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. god world Zora Neale Hurston
5fe0d1b To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is another kind of arrogance in the presumption that we may ever really build a faultless bridge from one shore to another, or even know where the mist has ceded to landfall. diplomacy nations peace world Barbara Kingsolver
b665e67 We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world? words world Ursula K. Le Guin
cff571a For here you were, Big James, named for me--you were a big baby, I was not--here you were, to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. black-history love loveless strength world James Baldwin
622e758 "Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because "all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,is not of the Father, but is of the world." This injunction is at best a paradox. Our humble and astonishing inheritance is the world and only the world, whose existence we constantly test (and prove) by telling ourselves stories about it. The suspicion that we and the world are made in the image of something wonderfully and chaotically coherent far beyond our grasp, of which we are also part; the hope that our exploded cosmos and we, its stardust, have an ineffable meaning and method; the delight in retelling the old metaphor of the world as a book we read and in which we too are read; the conceit that what we can know of reality is an imagination made of language -- all this finds its material manifestation in that self-portrait we call a library. And our love for it, and our lust to see more of it, and our pride in its accomplishments as we wander through shelves full of books that promise more and more delights, are among our happiest, most moving proofs of possessing, in spite of all the miseries and sorrows of this life, a more intimate, consolatory, perhaps redeeming faith in a method behind the madness than any jealous deity could wish upon us." consolation god libraries meaning naturalism world Alberto Manguel
e7984f3 The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare. forget hero madmen rare remember world James Baldwin
072dfb4 You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them... heavy inkheart world Cornelia Funke
d5fce86 The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places. animals beasts change creatures destroy growth human humankind men nature people prosperity take time wild world Robin Hobb
e4ce89a I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised. truth truth-tellers world Tess Gerritsen
49c9c25 Well, have you even tried again? You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes. life life-lesson mistake new-world try-again world Markus Zusak
fe1bb91 The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become. empowerment promise seeds world Kate Elliott
12d34e5 Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn't need all of us to produce more babies. pregnancy sexism world Caitlin Moran
c1fd925 But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. graduates lean-in sheryl-sandberg world Sheryl Sandberg
500fa14 Ya se que el mundo cambia, pero nunca en lo esencial. cambio changes esencial mundo world Carlos Ruiz Zafón
e4b3681 It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting. salvage-consultancy world John D. MacDonald
79bdba9 She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this. self-containment world Jeanette Winterson
c429027 we live in different worlds, different realities different-worlds parallel-universes reality world Pete Hautman
b7b37ff Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. poems poetry prayer self-reliance verse world Colson Whitehead
6ff7569 Vielleicht muss es im Leben eines Schriftstellers diesen Augenblick geben, in dem ein anderer Schriftsteller beschuldigt wird, seinen Beruf verfehlt zu haben. die er garp irving john sah und welt wie world John Irving
57fd1b7 Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end? ignorant world Francine Rivers
7fd324c These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down. passion slave world Francine Rivers
606252a The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. infinity intellect math question world Simon Singh
4a3a3c6 I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change. history people society society-problem violence world Cormac McCarthy
a3a6adc The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever. books god jesus-christ promises promises-in-the-dark world Beth Moore Jones
5088d36 "If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs." -- philosophy religion universe world Annie Dillard
5e3060f Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain. depression destiny dream dreams earning endtime family fantasy feminism fiction-food-for-though forgiveness freedom friends friendship future grief heart history humanity-humour imagination inspirational-quotes intelligence-is-attractive joy leadership life-and-living-life-philosophy life-quotes literature living loss love-quotes magic-spirit marriage meditation-men mind money motivation motivational motivational-quotes music nature pain passion-peace patience patience-johnson pentecost people politics positive-thinking power prayer psychology purpose quote quotes reading reality-relationship repentance sadness self-help self-improvement society soul spiritual strength time trust-war wisdom-quotes women words work world Patience Johnson
10d75b4 After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and how to sow and reap crops, he formulated a code of laws for them, and made them worship the gods and perform service to them. He then left Egypt and traveled over the rest of the world teaching the various nations to do what his own subjects were doing. He forced no man to carry out his instructions, but by means of gentle persuasion and an appeal to their reason, he succeeded in inducing them to practice what he preached. egypt indigenous-peoples instructions osiris transmission world Graham Hancock
a8dff2f Ishap, moreto e goliamo, a lodkata mi - malka. Imai milost k'm men. boat bulgarian feist ishap longbow martin mercy phylosopher phylosophy place raymond sea small world амос aruta български война дълголъкия лодка милост more моряк място разлом реймънд saga свят фийст философия Raymond E. Feist
1067cfb "A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws." physics world Barbara Ehrenreich
02d9443 I'm convinced that a few people are going to stand up and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands. american-history dreams motivational people society world Rebecca McNutt
e739ff4 Excellent papier. Rien a voir avec les pates mecaniques d'aujourd'hui... Vous savez quelle est la duree de vie moyenne d'un livre imprime a l'heure actuelle ?... Dis lui, Pablo. - Soixante-dix ans, repondit l'autre avec rancoeur, comme si Corso etait le coupable. Soixante-dix miserables annees. Le frere aine cherchait quelque chose parmi les objets disperses sur la table. Finalement, il s'empara d'une loupe speciale a fort grossissement et l'approcha du livre. - Dans moins d'un siecle, murmura-t-il tandis qu'il soulevait une page pour l'etudier a contre-jour en fermant un oeil, presque tout ce qui se trouve aujourd'hui dans les librairies aura disparu. Mais ces volumes imprimes il y a deux cents ou cinq cents ans, demeureront intacts... Nous avons les livres, comme le monde, que nous meritons... N'est-ce pas, Pablo ? - Des livres de merde pour un monde de merde. books handmade-books literature paper philosophy world Arturo Pérez-Reverte
5d6142c The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. stories world Mitch Albom
c532e6f No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don't get sick, where -- insurance truth world Cory Doctorow
7b3c4f6 And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough. world Colum McCann
e6e303f In my mind, the most noble way to leave your mark on the world is to expand man's understanding of the world. mark world Simon Singh
31d391f ...the world was a vale of tears--it always had been. vale-of-tears world Alexander McCall Smith
9219d1d Up to a decade or two ago, the system production-nature (man's productive-exploitative relationship with nature and its resources) was perceived as a constant, whereas everybody was busy imagining different forms of the social organization of production and commerce (Fascism or Communism as alternatives to liberal capitalism); today, as Fredric Jameson perspicaciously remarked, nobody seriously considers possible alternatives to capitalism any longer, whereas popular imagination is persecuted by the visions of the forthcoming 'breakdown of nature', of the stoppage of all life on earth - it seems easier to imagine the 'end of the world' than a far more modest change in the mode of production, as if liberal capitalism is the 'real' that will somehow survive even under conditions of a global ecological catastrophe. catastrophe ecological end exploitation global humanity liberal nature world Slavoj Žižek
ca67019 The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. fresh graduate life struggle world young Mitch Albom
5e28274 If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight. pleasant possibilities ships station-eleven world Emily St. John Mandel
afb41d9 "Women are kind of screwed, in the world," Andrew says." women world Michael Cunningham
f8890fa But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it. health planet world Elizabeth Gilbert
8ad1cda ...life is an argument with the world over time. time world Colson Whitehead
044e578 The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird's wing beating, the world seems unreal. bird despised ever field heart home man prepares pretend reeks run shield shit turn unreal wall wing world Bernard Cornwell
01cd5f8 It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again. hide war world Garth Ennis
d46715e "... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it." death life teaching the-wise world Elizabeth Gilbert
361edea You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing. world Robert Ferrigno
0947fc1 En contra de lo que usted cree a pies juntillas, el universo no gira en torno a las apetencias de su entrepierna. Otros factores influyen en el devenir de la humanidad. girar humanidad mundo world Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7d2fd42 Le interessa sconfiggere la solitudine e non perdere tempo a capire che in questo schifo di mondo niente vale un centesimo se non abbiamo qualcuno con cui condividerlo. share world Carlos Ruiz Zafón
b8bc0d2 But these people were judged very stupid by their friends. Was not Jonathan Strange known to be precisely the sort of whimsical, contradictory person who would publish against himself? christianity community faith family god godly honor obstacles vows word world Susanna Clarke
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