The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When you look at Earth from that one picture, the one from space, it's really a rather attractive thing. I have nothing… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
What I believe we need to do is to be the smartest, the healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather… — Taylor Wang Copy Share Image
God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds… — Benjamin F Sullivan Copy Share Image
A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Obviously you're looking out the window and you're seeing Earth and that's moving and then you're in a spacecraft now that can… — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
And fairy month of waking mirth From whom our joys ensue Thou early gladder of the earth Thrice welcome here anew With… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what… — Rebecca Watson Copy Share Image
History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God has a plan for everyone he created and none of his creations is meant to be purposeless. Every human being for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change.… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
In Heaven, each of us will have a special place to live. Before Jesus left this earth, He told His followers that… — David Berg Copy Share Image