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World Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
- The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
- This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it…
- Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by…
- The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.…
- To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
- People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,…
- I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
- I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when…
- Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes…
- In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad…
- There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency…
- It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It…
- Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
- I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any…
- I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach