Gravity Quotes

509 quotes by 394 authors

When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know… — Claude Bernard
I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly… — William Allingham
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving… — Neal A. Maxwell
When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it. — Adrian Rogers
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so… — Kenny Smith
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars. — Ray Bradbury
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my… — Anthony Burgess
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places… — David Hume
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die. — Jerry Pournelle
Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. — Caroline Myss
I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better. — Alfonso Cuaron
The dominant expression of a child is gravity. — Bret Harte
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket? — Woody Allen
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be… — Mark Twain
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for… — Charles Caleb Colton
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell

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