Quotes with planets

  • The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
  • We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • C. Wren A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Voltaire It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bjork Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Lord George Byron The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Moore There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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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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  • Benjamin Disraeli Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Alexander Herzen Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Mary Daly We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.
    Mary Daly
    American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian (1928 - 2010)
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  • Hilaire Belloc When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Leon Battista Alberti When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
    Leon Battista Alberti
    Italian poet, painter, philosopher and musician (1404 - 1472)
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  • Buzz Aldrin When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ben Sweetland Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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