T Quotes
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“The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.”
Source: West with the Night
“The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“The world grows when the mind grows, the world falls when the mind falls.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“The world had a tendency to trick people.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.”
“The world had always loved the saint as being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of God. Christ, through some divine instinct in him, seems to have always loved the sinner as being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of man. His primary desire was not to reform people, any more than his primary desire was to a relieve suffering. To turn an interesting thief into a tedious honest man was not his aim. He would have thought little of the Prisoners’ Aid Society and other modern movements of the kind. The conversion of a publican into a Pharisee would not have seemed to him a great achievement. But in a manner not yet understood of the world he regarded sin and suffering as being in themselves beautiful holy things and modes of perfection.
It seems a very dangerous idea. It is — all great ideas are dangerous. That it was Christ’s creed admits of no doubt. That it is the true creed I don’t doubt myself.
Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had done. The moment of repentance is the moment of initiation. More than that: it is the means by which one alters one’s past. The Greeks thought that impossible. They often say in their Gnomic aphorisms, ‘Even the Gods cannot alter the past.’ Christ showed that the commonest sinner could do it, that it was the one thing he could do. Christ, had he been asked, would have said — I feel quite certain about it — that the moment the prodigal son fell on his knees and wept, he made his having wasted his substance with harlots, his swine-herding and hungering for the husks they ate, beautiful and holy moments in his life. It is difficult for most people to grasp the idea. I dare say one has to go to prison to understand it. If so, it may be worth while going to prison.”
“The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.”
Source: The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
“The world had changed its attire in spring and what it was wearing now was a perfect fit to what it was deep inside: a controlling old slag who didn't care about anyone’s wishes and would ignore everyone who wouldn't live by her rules. Tom was finished with that cunt: the world behind the fogged up windows. He used to live in one of his own: a dirty but well-protected one that nobody had ever entered, since everyone who even tried was to be shot before they could make it over the threshold.”
Source: As the moon began to rust
“The world had changed its attire last spring and what it was wearing now was a perfect fit to what it was deep inside: a controlling old slag who didn't care about anyone’s wishes and ignored everyone who won't live by her rules. Tom was finished with that cunt: the world behind the fogged up windows. He used to live in one of his own: a dirty, but well-protected world that no one had ever entered and everyone who even tried was to get shot before they made it over the threshold.
~ As the moon began to rust”
“The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.”
Source: Duplex
“The world had ended, and I was the only person who knew it. People walked along the streets as if the pavements hadn't all crumbled beneath their feet.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossibility, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying—”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?”
“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossiblity, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying -”
“The world had gone mad. In war nothing was wrong but losing. No blacks and whites, only areas of gray. Whatever it took, whatever worked.”
“The world had gone quiet, and all that was left was an empty, dead space where nature's symphony should have been playing.”
Source: Midnight Falls
“The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.”
Source: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
“The world had never been kind to me, but I never needed kindness to survive.”
Source: Tethered In Blood: The gods are waiting
“The world had no room for him, no use. It was easier to simply disappear.”
“The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.”
Source: The Inhuman Condition
“The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”
Source: Hollywood
“The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.”
Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel
“The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.”
Source: Fool's Quest
“The world had went to hell, but at least I'd have pretty toenails.”
Source: Phase One: Identify
“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”
“The world has a beginning, but the universe has no end.”
“The world has a lot to offer. There’s a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that.”
Source: Drink Deep
“The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.”
“The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;
Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.
But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;
And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.”
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...”
Source: Crux
“The world has a way of balancing—for every time something good happens, something bad has to happen and vice versa. With the thought of my date with Blaine, I mentally prepare myself for the blow of something bad that I’m sure is headed my way.”
Source: The OCD Games
“The world has a way of dragging down our mood.”
Source: A Punctual Paymaster
“The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.”
“The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”
“The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.”
Source: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
“The world has already changed--yanked right out of the hands of anybody trying to go backward--be backward. It changed. Period and forever. What you're scared of is the burden of changing yourself along with it.”
Source: Sky Full of Elephants
“The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.”
“The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Cold War has been radically transformed. All of the institutions that preserved peace and promoted global trade will be weaker - NATO, the EU, NAFTA - and US relationships with other countries will change, too.”
“The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.”
“The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.”
“The world has always been ruled by violent people just as a jungle is ruled by a lion. Non-violent people have always had to submit to the onslaught of the violent people and lose their honour.The rule of non-violence i as utopian as the sheep ruling a jungle over lions.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.”
“The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case.”
“The world has always been unsettled by things that don’t match—beauty and ugliness side by side, the grotesque tangled with the pure.”
Source: Four of a Kind
“The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.”
“The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.”
“The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.”
“The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.”
“The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.”