Gravity Quotes

• The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Firsts

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• Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

  Dan Brown

  Truth, Powerful, People

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• There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Air, Planets

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• You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

  Ani DiFranco

  Love, Fall, Fighting

  Song: Falling Is Like This, Album: Out of Range

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• For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

  George Orwell

  Science, Past, Two

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.

  Mike Mullane

  Zero, Water, Vacuums

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so — from both the ethical and political points of view — had to be faced in all its gravity.

  Isser Harel

  Country, Mean, Views

  isser harel (1975). “the house on garibaldi street”

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• Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

  Mark Dever

  Scripture, Authority, Pulling

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• Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Ideas, Space

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• The way you move — you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets… or gravity. You’re like a… satellite, or something.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moving, Thinking, Littles

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mind, Too Much, Arguing

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• Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Adversity

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• Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

  Adam Savage

  Law, Ideas, Pilots

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• The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Science, Illustration

  John Burroughs (1895). “Fresh Fields”

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• It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

  Stephen Hawking

  Shapes, Four, Structure

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

  Roy H. Williams

  Music, Light, Essence

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• We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Wind, America, Girl Interrupted

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• Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dignity, Habit, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House

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• I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

  Tinie Tempah

  Earth, Down To Earth

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• You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

  Clayton Christensen

  Hate, Zero Gravity, Care

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• From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

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• Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

  Roy H. Williams

  Light, Different, Guitar Strings

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• You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Fall, Blame Someone

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• Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Tubs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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