Earth Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen Download Open image ““Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.”” — Viet Thanh Nguyen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earth Habits Nature Predictable Routine
“Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth, beginning with how she rapped on my door every morning, at six, six… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.” — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles,… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“At last, the world stops spinning. The ground is solid beneath her feet once more.” — Wendy Corsi Staub Copy Share Image
“I traveled in her orbit only for a while, but it was an exciting while and one during which it seemed that the joys… — Randy L. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I had no idea that my world was about to change because of her. Thus it is that major, climactic moments come and pass… — Bhaskar Ghose Copy Share Image
“She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world - She would shine again regardless of all the storms and changeable… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“When reality was just tilted on an axis, a world continued to spin. This is me.” — Brandi Gomez Copy Share Image
“She pretended she understood him, but how could she? He lived in the stars, and she was good, solid earth. She” — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“He had a Minnesotan’s admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature? I cannot recall. And yet at Yan’an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art could not be separated from politics,… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do. They take advantage of things...and they don't question things. As long as those things work for them, then they support those things. But you… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We’re all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn’t that what Original Sin is all… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that. She would read out loud, from the beginning. She would read with measured breath, to the very end. She would read as… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“then, to present myself as just another immigrant, glad to be in the land where the pursuit of happiness was guaranteed in writing, which, when one comes to think about it, is not such a great deal. Now a guarantee of happiness—that’s a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history of Catholicism, where sex of the homo, hetero, or pederastic variety supposedly never happened, hidden underneath the Vatican’s cassocks. Popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and monks carrying on with women, girls, boys, and each other? Hardly ever… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation. 2. Man-made wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. 3. Exposure to man-made electricity. 4. Eclipsing of the Sun by the International Space Station (ISS), satellites, airplanes and jet aircraft contrails (chemtrails). 5. Eating food forced grown using… — Steven Magee Copy Share
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
