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World Quotes by Philip Pullman
- Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I…
- We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all…
- We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
- After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
- Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of…
- He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life…
- Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
- Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and…
- All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They…
- Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
- Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without…
- He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's…
- The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of…
- The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and…
- One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being,…
- So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
- If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were…
- ...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would…
More World Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Only two Persons In The World Can Tell The Truth About you , . 1) A Dear one Who Is Angry On… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray