Best wall & world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.”

World Views Modern Willing Wall Horrible Screws Horrible Things Pompous Screw You Willing To Change

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.”

World Stills Soul Desire My Own Wall Morality Diversity Mirrors Fallen Abstract Sensations Metaphysics Centre

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.”

World Doe Suffering Wall

Book:What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace

Source: What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace

“To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.”

World Love Needs May Desire Stars Sky Figures Sweet Wall Lovers Red Rose Snow Imaginary Strain Red Rose Imaginary World

Author:Williston Fish

“As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.”

World Beautiful Stars Felt Saws This World Wall Stones Skins Emptiness Detachment Fusion Numbness Separateness

Book:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

“Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.”

World Feels Looks Earth Stars Wall Baby Cold Lovers Bed Tables Glasses Warm Awful Meals Emptiness Commerce Helpless Detachment Nests Outcast Numbness

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

“I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.”

People World Saws Wall Iraq Fallen Voting Cynical Cynicism Berlin Cynic Arab World Berlin Wall

Author:Walid Jumblatt

“I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.”

World White Wall Taste Depth Lips Glasses Corners Tongue Beer Brown Salt Wet Belly Brass Foam Swallowing

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.”

“Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.”

World Self Whole Problem Seems Grows Focus Awareness Wall Healthy Size Whole World Pity Shrinks Antidote Self Pity Absorption Self Absorption Awareness Of Others

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.”

World Book Hands Past Next Doors Wall Winter Guides Cycles Museums Chamber Butchers Munich Chamber Music Dachau

Author:George Steiner

“All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.”

World Seems Wall All Things Violent Thunder

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?”

Men World Life Should Wish Sleep Existence Lord Enemy Doors This World Wall Arms Eating Lays Misery Prize Dread Foe Wretched Breach Fortresses

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”

World Sound Common Four Wonderful Adventure Wall Research Fellows Wide Common Sense Realms Venture Respectable Homely Four Walls

Book:Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.”

Knows World Way Trying Kind Sometimes Done Use Dream Know How Wall Singing Bridges Insanity Pretending New Things New Ways Pretense

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.”

World Earth Water Divine Wall Cold Kissing Shadow Rose Winter Yellow Bent Alas Ponds Swans

Author:Friedrich Holderlin

“There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.”

Men World Home Young Lost Known Class Struggle Plans Wall Proud Battle Crosses Angry Refuse Likes Radical Ties Young Man Scar Working Class Places In The World

Author:Billy Joel

“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”

“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”

Men World Way Humans Made Body Eye Spirit Evil Individual Natural Effort Wall Diversity Patterns Accomplish Flesh Accomplished Barriers Mutual Shattered

Author:Yukio Mishima

“At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.”

“The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.”

World Used Process Streets Changed Wall Models Dollars Financial Accidents Orderly Derivatives

Author:Michael Lewis

“The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.”

World May Together Wall Stones Cracks Stone Walls

Author:Eiji Yoshikawa

“History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.”

People World Years Long Two Force Wall Europe Years Ago Overcoming Moved East Germany Iron Divided Yearning Dictator Eastern Curtains Unleashed Eastern Europe East Germany Iron Curtain

Author:Angela Merkel

“The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.”

People World Ideas Different Wanted Certain Subjects Wall Type Monasteries Different Ideas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.”

World Giving Made Happens Kids Wanted America Girl Games Rooms Fields Wall Scene Sticks Hockey Toys Crew Suggestions Texture Mikey Hockey Sticks Field Hockey

Author:Ang Lee

“When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.”

World Made Church Atheism Wall Garden Positive Atheism Separation Gaps

Author:Roger Williams

“I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.”

Thinking World Giving Mind Looks Character Might Energy Animal Rooms Color Wall Give Me Subconscious Spontaneous Flexible Subconscious Mind Latitude

Author:Wesley Snipes

“He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.”

World Writing May Wall Commit Guilty Writing On The Wall

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit enlightens, cheers, and comforts every member of the household. The peace we covet is found in such homes. Indeed, when temples are on earth, the whole world shares measurably in the issuing light; when absent, the hearts of men become heavy, as if they said, with the people of Enoch's day, 'Zion is fled'" (See Moses 7:69).”

“How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.”

World Children Rich Wife Wall Luxury Generosity Selfishness Exclusive Solicitude

Book:Outdoor Studies, Poems

Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems

“Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.”

World Reason Sex Objects Wall Shops

Author:Mae West

“If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.”

Ifs World School Religion Wealth Prayer Cities Saws Wall Kings Worship Letters Theatre Temples Coins Traverse

Author:Plutarch

“That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too”

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.”

“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”

“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”

World Bigs Would Be Eye Able Mother Wall Shadow Standing Casts Corners Frightened

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.”

“Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.”

World Feelings Pain Sound Impossible Color Wall Drug Sight Glasses Complexity Climbs Explosions Brilliance Feeling Pain

Book:Journey

Source: Journey

“I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.”

Thinking World Way Trying Stills Two Wall My Way Kicks Two Worlds

Author:Patti Smith

“Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."”

World Way Mean Country Reality Born Wall My Way Brazil Separating

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.”

Ifs World Needs Whole Shows Inspiration Artist Rooms Morning Four Wall Whole World Evening Pockets Midnight Noon Palate Four Walls

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.”

World Soul Fire Growing Wall Stones Obedience Fire Of God

Book:Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

“The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.”

World War Wall Financial War Of The Worlds World War I Alliances Interdependence

Author:Dick Morris

“The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his world shut out the broader horizon of affairs. Prejudice can maintain walls that no invention can remove.”

Men World Interest Wall Prejudice Affair Invention Range Remove Horizon Outlook Narrow-minded

Author:Joseph Jastrow

“...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.”

World May Study Feminism Danger Wall Degrees Feminist Contemplation Narcissism Absorbing

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“If you set yourself a goal for energy usage in your house, if you have to look at a graph on your phone, you probably won't change your behavior. But if you have a clock on the wall that changes color from green to red if you're using more energy than you've planned, then that actually can change your behavior. There are a lot of things to be done in that world that actually have an impact on our daily lives.”

Ifs World Looks Done House Energy Goal Color Wall Behavior Red Green Impact Phones Clock Daily Life Usage Graphs

Author:Werner Vogels

“So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.”

World Years Hands Government Lasts Left Movement Wall My Friends Environmental Communist Captured Berlin World Government Berlin Wall Greenpeace Apotheosis

Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

“Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.”

World Friendship Wind Wall Firm

Author:Charles Hanson Towne

“Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in”

People World Philosophy Enemy Strange Wall

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal. Yet there is no nation in the world that doesnt surround sex with fantastic walls. Of course ours are sillier than any-but not much.”

World Important Courses Nations Sex Wall Criminals Ignorant Curious Fantastic Surround Mechanism

Book:The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos

Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos

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