Whole world Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Whole world
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.” — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“There are those that make it in the world, and then there are the masses.” — Jennie Ishiba Copy Share Image
“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be;… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this… — Herman Melville Copy Share
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when-There she blows!-the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, after the war is over, that will be the only way they can turn. Everything else will have been tried, everything else will have failed. And… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share
At least I'm not a celebrity and if I was, the whole world would have known that I broke up with my girlfriend last… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
“I remembered how it had been first learning to read, how the squiggles of print finally organized themselves slowly and painfully into words, then pieced together into sentences with meaning. Now, for the first time, the squiggles were releasing actual worlds... All of them surfacing from the page so real that when I finally closed my eyes, I was amazed… — Elizabeth Joy Arnold Copy Share
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You… — James Patterson Copy Share
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests -… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
“I watch the perfectly imperfect people several stories below, living their perfectly imperfect lives, and I think about how many decades will have to… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it's also one of the major forces determining… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
If we all stand together we're a force that can shake the whole world. — A Day To Remember Copy Share Image
I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
