Quotes of: Animal-world Keyword

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

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

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

I used to think I had all the time in the world to do everything I wanted. But what's the use of having all the time in the world if you're always wasting it on things that don't mean a thing?

Dinner for Two

..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.

Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination

... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.

Eat, Pray, Love

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.

The Edogawa Rampo Reader

I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

Flash Virus Episode One

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.

A Friendly Universe: Sayings to Inspire and Challenge You

It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

Gold in the Days of Summer: A Novella

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and , a corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

General Psychological Theory