Famous quotes containing the words individual, world and/or records:
“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individuals individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbolcross or crescent or whateverthat symbol is mans reminder of his duty inside the human race.”
—William Faulkner (18971962)
“Why do we like being Irish? Partly because
It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
As members of a world that never was,
Baptized with fairy water;”
—Louis MacNeice (19071963)
“Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
And even old mens eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
Babbling of fallen majesty, records whats gone.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)