#world

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#fairy tales #family #father #had #how

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#meant #now #played #screw #series

Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#heaven-and-hell #heaven-on-earth #hell #hell-on-earth #life-on-earth

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#ever #feelings #job #loss #only

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#ghost #had #hero #i #idea

You have to stand up for some things in this world. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#some things #stand #stand up #things #up

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that. ↗

— Lesley-Anne Down

#breath #credits #deathbed #even #get

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#compares #extinction #human #human race #interconnected