It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. ~ John Green, Author
Tag Archives: World
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~ Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens, American Poet – 1879 – 1955
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. ~ John Steinbeck
Ursula K. Le Guin Quote
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, American author 1929-
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. – Iris Murdoch
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot
The American Dream has run out of gas. ~ J. G. Ballard
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam… ~ J. G. Ballard, British author 1930-
Two Kinds of Stress ~ Hank Green
I deal with stress in two ways because there two kinds of stress. There’s stress you can take care of and there’s stress that you can’t. The first one, I take care of it fast as possible, but putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can’t fix? I think about the fact […]
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~ William Shakespeare
And that’s the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle. ~ Stan Dunn
Flying High ~ Nina Simone
“Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good” ~ Nina Simone (1933-2003)
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles M. Schulz
Samuel Johnson Quote
The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. ~ Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
Living in a world… Alfred E. Newman
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ~ Alfred E. Newman
Coffee: the favorite drink of the civilized world. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Peter Ustinov Quote
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. ~ Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)
Thomas J. Watson Quote
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ~ Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ~ Ursula K. LeGuin
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan
“In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.” ~ George Harrison
Gold is worse poison to a man’s soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug. ~ William Shakespeare
Life and death matters, yes. ~ Raymond Carver
“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.” ~ Raymond Carver, Writer – (1938-1988)
“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.” ~ Clarice Lispector
Writer, B. December 10, 1920 – D. December 9, 1977
To See A World ~ William Blake
A Good World
Music Instead Of Noise
Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Carl Sagan Quote
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan
Wallace Stevens Poetry Quote
Goodbye Quote: Charles M. Schulz
Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
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Quote: Henry David Thoreau, Miracles Happen
Increase Your Word Power ~ P. D. James
“Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more Âeffective your writing. We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.” – P. D. James
Joni Mitchell Quote
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.” – Joni Mitchell
Jean-Paul Sartre Quote
Man is condemned to be free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. ~Jean-Paul Sartre
Reading ~ Judith Butler
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler
Nonsense
Unpredictable Things
Old Books
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Hate
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Anjelou
Thinking
Occupation: Professor
Artist
Cookies And Milk
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. -Barbara Jordan
Food And Cheer
The World You See….. ~ Jack Kerouac
Hope Is…
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Albert Camus On Ethics
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Neal Cassady
Born: February 8, 1926 – Died: February 4, 1968 AZQuotes.com
Iris Murdoch
Born: July 15, 1919 – Died: February 8, 1999 AZQuotes.com
Fire And Ice ~ Robert Frost
From the Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice written in 1923. Wordables.com
Edgar Allan Poe Quote
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Hell
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. Aldous Huxley
Albert Camus Quote
Meliorism
Wordables
Jack Kerouac Quote
Wordables
Best photographs of the day: lightning strikes and floating piers
Best photographs of the day: lightning strikes and floating piers http://gu.com/p/4njkz?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
“Truth about being single”
Source: “Truth about being single”
Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac
Born: March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts
A Pondering Moment #3
In a perfect world there would be no worries
Pondering Thought #2
Smile Its not the end of the world
Pondering Thought #1
In a perfect world life would be boring
Ignorance And Stupidity
Seems to be a lot of this going around.
New Year’s Eve 2015 celebrations
New Year’s Eve 2015 celebrations http://gu.com/p/4fefj?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
The 20 photographs of the year
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Bertrand Russell
Photo highlights of the day: swimming Santas and a tower of chairs
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Photo highlights of the day: Madonna in Paris, and a festive dog
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Photo highlights of the day: New York premieres and Dubai high flyers
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The 20 photographs of the week
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The weekend in pictures
The weekend in pictures http://gu.com/p/4ezn3?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.bquot.es/s/1194
Wednesday Quote
“I have had good experience and trial of this world…I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.” – Elizabeth I of England http://www.bquot.es/s/2266
Saturday Humor Quote
“If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.” – Yogi Berra http://www.bquot.es/s/1151
Sunday Evening Quote
Fabulous Quotes
Monday Afternoon Quote
“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” – Alan Watts http://www.bquot.es/s/2805
My Two Cents
My opinion from a straight man; A woman wants to marry another woman, go for it. A man wants to marry another man, go for it. For people who keep saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman, fine. But don’t be spouting the venom and bullshit by putting the Gays and […]
Tuesday Evening Quote
“You do not need to leave your room, remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ” – Franz […]
Tuesday Morning Quote
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” – Henry Ford http://www.bquot.es/s/162
Zen Quote
“Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.” – John Bradshaw
Blame
Can You Remember …….
Anonymous Fab Quote
Jimi Hendrix Quote
Russell Brand Quote
English comedian, Born: June 4, 1975
Bob Dylan Quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Born: May 25, 1803 – Died: April 27, 1882
Charles M. Schulz Quote
Brainy Quote
Henry David Thoreau Quote
Daniel Berrigan Quote
Born: May 9, 1921 Clergyman
Pete Seeger Quote
Photo highlights of the day
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Japanese Zen Saying
“The world is like a mirror you see? smile and your friends smile back.” – Japanese Zen Saying
Socrates Quote
“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” – Socrates http://www.bquot.es/s/537
Dalai Lama Quote
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama http://www.bquot.es/s/89
Voltaire Quote
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” – Voltaire http://www.bquot.es/s/1823
Oscar Wilde Quote
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde http://www.bquot.es/s/469
Intelligence
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell
Final Quote For 2014
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. – H. L. Mencken Quote Source: Dumb.com
No Better Feeling …
Brainy Quote
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“It’s healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.” Bill Withers
