Planets Quotes

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The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We… — J. G. Ballard
Come on,â€ he droned, â€œIâ€™ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they… — Douglas Adams
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. — Terence McKenna
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making… — Madeleine L'Engle
We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its… — Amin Maalouf
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in… — Clark Ashton Smith
People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe… — Bill Hicks
i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat,… — Charles Bukowski
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure… — Robert A. Heinlein
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not… — Stanislaw Lem
Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down… — Ann M. Martin
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to… — Novalis
Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence. — Robert Cormier
...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want… — Henri Bergson
Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing.… — Sting
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half… — Isaac Asimov
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov… — Arthur C. Clarke
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after… — Philip K. Dick

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