Planets Quotes

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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchâ€”the wheel, New… — Douglas Adams
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet… — Neal Stephenson
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled… — Jack London
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,… — Charles Darwin
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do… — Dalai Lama
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. — Alice Walker
Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from… — Vladimir Nabokov
For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after… — Chuck Palahniuk
My job, my mission, the reason Iâ€™ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for cominâ€™ with me. Yeah,… — Steve Irwin
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will… — Kurt Vonnegut
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,'… — Joshua Ferris
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear… — Douglas Adams
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human… — Elizabeth Gilbert
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath… — Kurt Vonnegut
Thereâ€™s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that youâ€™re alive. Itâ€™s… — Ana Castillo
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around. — Cormac McCarthy
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have… — Robert Anton Wilson
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. — Philip Yancey

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