#world

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. ↗

— John Robert Seeley

#conquered #fit #half #mind #peopled

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life-lessons #nurture #personal #sunday #world

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again? ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#world #life

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#applause #encores #had #happiness #i

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#life-and-living #life-experience #world #experience

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#eat #get #important #important things #love

THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He’d never ripped a man’s throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She’d made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#lords-of-the-underworld #humor

I promised her the world, but instead I bought her a globe. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #world #humor

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humor #netherworld #humor