„This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.“

„Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.“

—  Voltairine de Cleyre American anarchist writer and feminist 1866 - 1912

"Written-In-Red" Stanza 2
Contexto: Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.
But the shrouded Living, whose hearts were numb,
have felt the beat of a wakening drum
Within them sounding — the Dead men’s tongue —
Calling: "Smite off the ancient rust!"
Have beheld "Resurrexit," the word of the Dead,
Written-in-red.

„When a reviewer says that Malamud is second only to Bellow, it means he really isn't thinking about either of them. When he's reading Malamud he's thinking about Bellow, and when he's reading Bellow he's thinking about Roth. This is the essence of the ratings game: distraction. Children play it all the time. "Is this the biggest bridge in the world?" "No, it's the third biggest." "Oh."“

—  Wilfrid Sheed English-American novelist and essayist 1930 - 2011

They lose all interest in the bridge.
"The Art of Reviewing" (1973), p. 10
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

„In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.“

—  Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

Also used at his funeral (3 Sep. 2009) invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson " in CNN.com/entertainment (03 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1

„The world is filled with talented poor people.“

—  Robert T. Kiyosaki American finance author , investor 1947

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

„Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.“

—  Graham Greene, livro The Quiet American

Pt. I, ch. 3, sect. 3
Fonte: The Quiet American (1955)

„I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.“

—  Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004

„He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.“

—  Susanna Clarke, livro Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Fonte: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.“

—  John Updike, livro Rabbit Is Rich

Fonte: Rabbit Is Rich

„Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.“

—  L. Frank Baum, livro Rinkitink in Oz

Fonte: Rinkitink in Oz

„All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.“

—  Joseph Pisani American artist and photographer 1971

As quoted on the artist's Twitter Feed, March 16, 2013 https://twitter.com/josephpisaniart/status/312902833747943424

„The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.“

—  Thomas Heywood English playwright, actor, and author 1574 - 1641

Apology for Actors, (1612). Compare: "The world's a stage on which all parts are played", Thomas Middleton, A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1.; "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.

„The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.“

—  Sherman Alexie Native American author and filmmaker 1966

„The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.“

—  John Updike, livro Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)
Contexto: His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.

„The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.“

—  Herbert Spencer English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist 1820 - 1903

Vol. 3, Ch. IX, State-Tamperings with Money and Banks
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)

„When all the world is filled with evil, transform adversity into the path of enlightenment.“

—  Chekawa Yeshe Dorje Buddhist meditation master 1102 - 1176

Seven Points of Mind Training

„The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.“

—  Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)

„How will it be with kingdoms and with kings —
With those who shaped him to the thing he is —
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world.
After the silence of the centuries?“

—  Edwin Markham American poet 1852 - 1940

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899), The Man With the Hoe (1898)
Contexto: O masters, lords and rulers in all lands
How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings —
With those who shaped him to the thing he is —
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world.
After the silence of the centuries?

„Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.“

—  B.K.S. Iyengar Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918 - 2014

Fonte: Light on Life

„If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"“

—  Thomas Guthrie British divine 1803 - 1873

Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 128.