When you ask about "mission" it is easy to reference a "mission statement" which, in my case, is the quest, however Quixotic,… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids.… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as… — James Gilmour Copy Share Image
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that… — Kodo Sawaki Copy Share Image
In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Mother Earth is the spirit of the Earth. Amaterasu is the spirit of the Sun, that is, the feminine aspect of the… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I don't know what our capabilities are. If I were there, I think it would be nutty to do that. The only… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense…… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind… — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image