Quotes with earth-shaking

Quotes 481 till 499 of 499.

  • Bjarke Ingels You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Billie Holiday You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • John Lennon You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Louise Erdrich You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Traherne Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Gay But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Malcolm X Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
    (1965)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Simone Weil It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Hannah Arendt The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Denis Diderot The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Elias Canetti There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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