My World Quotes
You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.
We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.
It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear.
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over.
Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.
I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.
A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.
Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.
I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.
I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don't mean.
I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
Educated and productive young people are needed to help # LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?
What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.
Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.