World Quotes - Page 523

I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.

Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.

W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you?

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.