Axes Quotes - Page 6

• What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Stars

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• The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Moon, Views

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• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Death, Science, Years

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Real, Iran, Korea

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• Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Book, Simple

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

  Robert Breault

  Love, World, Spinning

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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Ordinary, Doe

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.

  Jared Diamond

  Climate, East, West

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• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

  Michael Dirda

  Battle, Velvet, World

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• The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Life, People, Needs

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Long, Mammals

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• You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Long, World

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• Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.

  Ilchi Lee

  World, Earth, Consciousness

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• It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Opposites, Mind, Flow

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 1, p. 13, 1977.

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• Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Sex, Children, Impact

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• We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iran, Nuclear, Want

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• Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fall, Clueless, Personality

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• The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

  Brenda Peterson

  Prayer, Believe, Everyday

  Brenda Peterson (2000). “Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit”, Newsage Press

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• Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

  Shan Sa

  Stars, Moon, Earth

  Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Isolated, Intonation

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

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• Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Journey, Air

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

  Louise Bogan

  Happiness, Beauty, Encouragement

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

  Peter Tosh

  Earthquakes, Tilt, Reggae

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• The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

  Steve Jobs

  Today, Conservative, Constructive

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• Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Time, Tea Drinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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