“Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.” WorldEnoughWantedHeavenPrideHolyAmbitionMiracleConquerUnworthyJennyConquer The World Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.” KnowsWorldHumorFunnyDifficultWatchesKnow HowSelf ImprovementPatienceCommentDifficult ThingsCatchy Author:T. H. White
“There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.” PeopleWorldYearsLongDoeBodyLawUsedHateCan DoMiddleTaughtGoes OnBalanceConstantLogicalMiddle AgedKnowledge Of The WorldHate Her Author:T. H. White
“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.” IfsWorldSoulProblemBodySeriousMoralityConcernedImportanceHotCatholicNakedVersusConfrontingPistolsFree LoveHot Body Author:T. H. White
“They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.” IfsWorldGivingMadeBeautiful Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.” WorldHumansWellsMayDoneMomentsCareHuman BeingsAnimalBoysSuperiorsVegetablesI CareVirusesRipeMineralsHawksMy BoysDone With You Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.” KnowsWorldInspirationalMindMayLyingNightEvilGrowsEducationTeacherOne ThingLove YouMissingListeningAwakeHonourDisorderVeinsTremblingOnly LoveAnatomyDevastatedTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationSewersAwake At NightWags Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” WorldInspirationalMindLooksDreamEducationLearningStudentsRegretDistrustDevastatedTeaching And EducationNever FearTeaching EducationSewersWagsWhat Is Education Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
