If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak... LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily con... NICK MASON The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ... ANDRé ALEXIS Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people wer... JAMES HILTON (He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits tha... BRUCE STERLING Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music o... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl... ALICE WALKER Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat... TIM O'BRIEN For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams... ROBERTO BOLAñO A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a d... JOHN STEINBECK If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and god... ELISABETH ELLIOT When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien... DAMON LINDELOF They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, ... C. JOYBELL C. Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creature... DONALD DAVIDSON For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA It almost felt like we were driving in our own world--like we were inside a snow globe--and there wa... MELISSA C. WALKER Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer... JOHN CONNOLLY I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of the... HILLARY CLINTON The animals of the world exist
for their own reasons. They were
not made for humans any more
than... ALICE WALKER They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up ... DONNA TARTT He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creat... LEO TOLSTOY The fires there were contained and no longer were a threat prior to a declaration being made. JOY MOSER Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe... CORMAC MCCARTHY In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. GEORGE ELIOT As long as we think that the animal races were lower than us and were not a form of civilizations, o... TOBA BETA And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as
conceivable. THOMAS CARLYLE How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is the... DAVID HUME If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men ... LORD HALIFAX As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolen... AMBROSE BIERCE When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. T... ART COOPER I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever ... CARL SAGAN Yet no one seemed to have thought through the implications of a world in which everyone cheated. The... MARTIN AMIS There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measur... NELSON MANDELA I felt that it was more contained ... and I didn't see as many people that I felt were out of contro... MAKEDA KEFALE It was like 9-11 or the Holocaust for gay men. It not only destroyed us, but it made people to recog... JOE LOVETT But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The... AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agen... SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There were a couple of players who were more responsible about it than others and I challenged them.... BRENT SUTTER The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c... ALBERT CAMUS In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is h... LAO-TZU In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is h... LAO TZU The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY There at last when the mallorn leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Maundy Thursday Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872 In the whole... HENRY M. GWATKIN The theory behind the program was it would catch people who dropped their insurance after renewing t... STEVE DALE It was kind of frightening. They were hitting rocket after rocket after rocket. Their swagger had ch... DICKIE NOLES There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c... STEPHEN KING Damn it, there is no world if there is not a human eye to see it, no world of any purpose or meaning... DEAN KOONTZ Dan has many interesting sidelines and he's fascinated by the world of paranormal. It's part of his ... HAROLD RAMIS It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy... C. JOYBELL C. There were some that looked undercover or not in uniform and then there were a quite a few that walk... NATALIE FUSCO Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who ... EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Northwestern Carpathians, in which I was raised, were a hard place, as unforgiving as the people... ANDREW KRIVAK Ignorance though not excused, Inexcusable in a world so resourceful yet so complacent on mimic, huma... DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL The cruelest joke in the history of the world was man being given so much reason and women were made... COLIN GORMAN That there is in this world neither brains, nor goodness, nor good sense, but only brute force. Bloo... ANATOLY KUZNETSOV They were not serving the public interest, but their immediate personal interest, and it was nothing... EDWARD BELLAMY The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an ... GEORGE ORWELL What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their mo... STEPHEN KING There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everythin... T. SCOTT MCLEOD Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness o... CHIEF SEATTLE They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first... JACK LOWDEN The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - ... AARON YOO The first couple of days we were finding people, ... A lot of people were stranded. For whatever rea... PATRICK CLARK In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was sud... THOMAS MERTON Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened t... GEORGE ORWELL More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's o... CAROL VORDERMAN The world is not what is was or what you wish that it were or what it could have been. The world is ... HENDRIK-JAN HOEVE There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning ... TRUMAN CAPOTE Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it wa... DONNA MILLS To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being wat... H.G. WELLS It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t... ARCHIBALD MACLEISH But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adv... JACK LONDON Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ... J. J. ABRAMS We were marked and had been marked in unforgettable and forever ways. We were all better men for it.... JAY CROWNOVER I was very proud of them. There were seven of them out there who were playing their last game . . . ... AMY LITTERAL Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition... NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is not... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you ca... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Pr... ADAM CLARKE Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with the... ANTHONY TROLLOPE So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which ti... WILLIAM ADAMS Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promo... RALPH J. CUDWORTH They were placed in a hotel, their freedom within the village is not limited, and there was no decis... ANDREI ORLOV The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t... SAMUEL SMILES Yet in the end wealth proved treacherous, for in life it was a blanket of warmth, yet when the coldn... NOLAN BANKS In many cases, it was from their homes at gunpoint. There were no receipts given or anything else at... WAYNE LAPIERRE And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was ... KEVIN HEARNE Man was more effective, we were stopping their back cuts. But deep threes. Hey, we were told to get ... ANTHONY KING When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe... VERA BRITTAIN One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for ... RICHARD WRIGHT They were idiots for not getting rid of me or him, every single week. It was so obvious. They though... AMBER BRKICH
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar. CORMAC MCCARTHY The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes... CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were. CORMAC MCCARTHY It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou... CORMAC MCCARTHY But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula... CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin... CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some ... CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ... CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi... CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ... CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner. CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ... CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face. JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh... MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol... MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ... ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because ... ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY