Planets Quotes

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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT… — R. Buckminster Fuller
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that… — W. Somerset Maugham
I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the… — Philip K. Dick
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder
I know what itâ€™s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what itâ€™s like to be in danger. While your city was building you… — Scott Westerfeld
The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us. — Michael Crichton
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.… — Junot Diaz
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery. — Edward Abbey
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple… — Nhat Hanh
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book… — Kurt Vonnegut
After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband… — Ray Bradbury
Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right… — Ronald Reagan
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English… — Robert A. Heinlein
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.… — Barack Obama

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