Banality Of The World Quotes

#1. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that." Professor

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders and searching my face intently. "Please let it be yes," he said with a gravelly edge. "Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you, even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#3. His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

Publilius Syrus

#4. Beautiful is another word we tossed around too casually, slopping it over everything from cars to nail polish until the word collapsed under the weight of all the banality. But the world is beautiful. I hope they never forget that. The world is beautiful.

Rick Yancey

#5. I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,

Chris Marker

#6. Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

Steven Morrissey

#7. We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.

Nick Veasey

#8. Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

Diana Vreeland

#9. Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.

Jeanne De Salzmann

#11. Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Erik Erikson

#12. Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Irving Stone

#13. What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Sitting Bull

#14. Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

#15. I'm always yours, Rule. I will so totally marry you and it would make me happier than anything in the entire world to be an Archer. I don't need a ring or a speech. All I ever need is you.

Jay Crownover

#16. The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

Teju Cole

#17. The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

Roger Housden

#18. There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Jill Abramson

#19. What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.

J.D. Robb

#20. Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24.

Felix Wantang

#21. If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.

David Ben-Gurion

#22. It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

Allison Mackie