Sphere Quotes
390 quotes by 310 authors
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You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that…
— Evgeny Morozov
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It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some…
— Albert Einstein
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For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of…
— Richard P. Feynman
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My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which…
— Henry James
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Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and…
— Thomas Hardy
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I…
— Ruth Graham
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Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of…
— Karl Popper
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Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If…
— Ayn Rand
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Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men –…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination…
— Marquis de Sade
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I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in…
— Bertrand Russell
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What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.
— Annie Dillard
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Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to…
— Tom Robbins
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It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere,…
— Khalil Gibran
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This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy…
— John Milton
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When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Who Wrote These Sphere Quotes
310 authors contributed a total of 390 Sphere Quotes, led by these top contributors: