Quotes of: Animal-world Keyword

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

I was raised to face any challenge.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Dear John

There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.

Drunk Mom: A Memoir

If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself.

Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside: Live Your Legacy Now

Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?

The Day The World Went Orange

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

The Dovekeepers

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

Dead to the World

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

Eloisa to Abelard

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.

Enchanted One: The Portal to Love

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

Everwild

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Vol. 2

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

Flight Behavior

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

Fear: A Novel of World War I