Gravity Quotes - Page 14

She felt as if she had been running, and had created a hill and was racing down the other side, and there was no stopping now. Gravity was taking her where she had to go. "But -- everyone cares about something. Don't they?

Cassandra Clare

Running, Racing, Stopping

Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wit

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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything? Has it any reference to electricity? or does it stand on the very foundation of matter-mass or inertia? then we feel the need of tests, whether they be comets or nebulae or laboratory experiments or bold questions as to the truth of received opinions.

James Clerk Maxwell

Science, Doe, Needs

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If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

Jack Kornfield

Wise, Spiritual, Real

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There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity

Forest Ray Moulton

Science, Moon, Technology

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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Saul Bellow

Love, Funny, Soul

"Him with His Foot in His Mouth" (1984)

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What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.

Justin Torres

Fall, Clouds, Sky

Justin Torres (2012). “We the Animals”, p.71, Granta Books

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When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.

Tom Colicchio

Running, New York, Years

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I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Mohsin Hamid

Moon, Journey, Invisible

Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.

Diane von Furstenberg

Fighting, People, Water

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May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Dream, Law, May

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No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Kings, Ignorance, Law

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It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.

Stephenie Meyer

Brother, Moving, Sight

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Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.

Thaddeus Golas

Spiritual, Thinking, Attachment

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

John Falsey

Love, Feet, Space

"Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

Michel de Montaigne

Credit, Cold, Capacity

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I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Daniel Handler

Humor, Enemy, Add

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She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.

Thomas Pynchon

Dream, Night, Law

Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.55, Penguin

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The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Archimedes

Axes, Cylinders, Centre

Archimedes (1912). “The Method of Archimedes, recently discovered by Heiberg: a supplement to the Works of Archimedes, 1897”

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It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite
sides respectively.

Archimedes

Opposites, Two, Triangles

Archimedes (2007). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

Tony Robbins

Identity, Incredibles, Invisible

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Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

Banksy

Law, Land, Painting

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Love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl.

Stephen King

Moving, Love Is, Men

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.318, Anchor

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When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Diane Ackerman

Heart, Blue, Ice

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I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.

Stefan Zweig

Voice, Today, Too Much

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