Worldlyness Quotes

#1. If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.

Ross King

#3. I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

Carrie Brownstein

#4. We fight hard, but love harder and the pull we have to each other is all consuming.

Danielle Jamie

#5. When you don't know how to build the present, you tell

Muriel Barbery

#6. Well, you're just going to have to take a leap of faith," he said.
"I think I can do that," she said. "If you're there to catch me."
"I'm here," he said. "I haven't let you down yet, have I?"
She put her hand against his face. "No, Jack. You sure haven't.

Robyn Carr

#7. Her hand holding his for a dozen paces. His, resting on the small of her back for a moment. Touches that had no real purpose but to say I'm here and We are together still.

Veronica Rossi

#8. Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

Isla Fisher

#9. Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.

Marion Jensen

#10. I love to fly. It's just you're alone, there's peace and quiet, nothing around you but clear blue sky. No one to hassle you. No one to tell you where to go or what to do. The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fuckin' world.

Mary Ellen Mark

#11. I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.

Audrey Niffenegger

#12. What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

Andrew Jackson

#13. Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

Alfred Sheinwold

#14. I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

Lauren Conrad

#15. This new thinking leads away from the pack, but a dog is no dog if he does not belong.

Andre Alexis

#16. The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

John Waters