Quotes with planet-wide

Quotes 101 till 120 of 183.

  • Aaron Copland So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
    Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit (1954)
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Virginia Woolf Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Plutarch Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Salman Rushdie Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
    and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
    The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
    Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • George Eliot Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ben Stein The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Adrienne Rich The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Nikola Tesla The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Billy Parish The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
    Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 37
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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