Outer World

Famous quotes containing the words outer world, outer and/or world:

    “The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man’s bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “No one knows better than children how much they need the authority that protects, that sets the outer limits of behavior with known and prescribed consequences. As one little boy expressed it to his mother, “You care what I do.””
    —Leontine Young (20th century)

    “The world has already learned that woman has other virtues than meekness, patience, humility and endurance. She possesses courage above all fear, and a will that knows no obstacles; and when these are called forth by some great emergency, false modesty is trampled in the dust, and spheres are scattered to the winds.”
    —A. Holley, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Lily, p. 38 (May 1852)