The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me.… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth, — Efraim Zuroff Copy Share Image
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil—these… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed,… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
People just put a 'mask' to cover their problems. Earth is the biggest stage in universe and we are the 'actors'. We're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
As the spinal cord increases, it makes you taller. However, after landing on the Earth, you shrink a bit. What was worrisome… — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth. Heaven is… — Paul P. Enns Copy Share Image
Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life… — Roberta Bondar Copy Share Image
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
