Quotes with earth

Quotes 401 till 420 of 489.

  • Sir Walter Raleigh There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Walter Savage Landor There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Douglas Macarthur There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bobby Fischer They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
    Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Lester Bangs They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Billie Jean King They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ban Ki-moon This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.
    Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (19 December 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bernard Malamud Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Rachel Carson Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Karl Popper Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Amy Lowell Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • C. V. Raman To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Barry Marshall To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Albert Camus To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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