World Like Quotes
198 quotes by 172 authors
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Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear…
— Mary Karr
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his…
— Karen Chance
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My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main…
— Matt de la Pena
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Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real…
— John Connolly
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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world…
— Roald Dahl
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When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the…
— Jean M. Auel
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The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back…
— Ray Bradbury
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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world,…
— Oscar Wilde
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Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.
— Joe Meno
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Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even…
— Ernst Junger
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How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many…
— Ben Sherwood
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We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
— William Shakespeare
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The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power…
— Frederick Buechner
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I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
— Paul Auster
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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting…
— Virginia Woolf
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The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Treat the world like a head.
— Karl Pilkington
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Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to…
— Lynsay Sands
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