Rim Of The World Quotes

#1. Closer and closer they came. The sight was a glorious one: two vessels racing towards each other as the sun lifted above the rim of the world.

M. Kei

#2. I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron

#3. Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. It makes a man feel universal, floating over the continents, seeing the rim of the world, a line as clear as a compass arc, knowing it is just a turning of the bend to Atlantic twilight, to sediment plumes and kelp beds, an island chain glowing in the dusky sea.

Don DeLillo

#5. When we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

Billy Graham

#6. Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed.

Hazel Felleman

#7. Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing you see. It is your imagination.

J.R. Rim

#8. The fixed is the world without fire- dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

Annie Dillard

#9. I felt like a frog that had just come out of its pit, from which it had contemplated the circle of sky outlined by the rim, and taken it for the whole of the world. I had passed through to the other side of the mirror. (162)

Hyok Kang

#10. Nothing is more to me than myself.

Max Stirner

#11. I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

Dave Barry

#12. I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#13. What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.

Tom Robbins

#14. He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into an amber world where bubbles burst and are born, burst and are born.

Gloria Naylor

#15. I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

Honore De Balzac

#17. The world may be about to end, but if it's going to end, we'll goddamn well give it our best shot first. And this is the place to do it.

Alex Irvine

#18. Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

Salman Rushdie

#19. Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world ...

Edward Abbey

#20. Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ...

John Coldstream

#21. The way you see the world is how you live it.

J.R. Rim

#22. We marvel that you would consider us a joy worth suffering for, and we bow humbly before you and offer you our praise, our thanks, and our very lives.

Barbara R. Duguid

#23. Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God.

J.R. Rim

#24. And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#25. I want to be this generation's Sherlock Holmes. That is, the man to solve first world problems.

J.R. Rim

#26. To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents.
To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

J.R. Rim

#27. Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. 'Has no one here any sense? Be quiet and sit down. The world will look after itself for a night, without your hand on the rim.

Dorothy Dunnett

#28. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

J.R. Rim

#29. And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

Patrick Suskind