Orbit Quotes
160 quotes by 126 authors
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i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.
— Douglas Coupland
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Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not…
— Franz Kafka
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Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is…
— Bill Watterson
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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re…
— Haruki Murakami
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And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The…
— Douglas Adams
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I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is…
— Loretta Chase
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As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.
— Paulo Coelho
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They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny…
— Paolo Giordano
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It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how…
— Haruki Murakami
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There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our…
— Jamie Ford
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Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to…
— Kami Garcia
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Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that…
— Gregory Maguire
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E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits…
— Galileo Galilei
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She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others,…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily…
— Anthony Kiedis
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We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.…
— Gore Vidal
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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the…
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Orbit Quotes
126 authors contributed a total of 160 Orbit Quotes, led by these top contributors: