Planets Quotes

• The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Motivational, Feminist

  "The Last Poem I Loved: 'Modotti' by Adrienne Rich" by Laura Goode, therumpus.net. April 02, 2012.

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• We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Interesting, Different, Littles

  "Fictional character: Dudley". "The Bishop's Wife", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

  Eva Green

  Dream, Dreamer, Living On

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• Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moving, Focus, Sun

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• I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 239), 1979.

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• There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

  Stephen Hawking

  Space Science, Accidents

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

  Bob Brown

  Positive, People, Environmental

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

  Derrick Jensen

  Civilization, Mass Extinction, Matter

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.87, Seven Stories Press

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• If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Believe, Reality

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• This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

  Paul Tsongas

  Land, Air, Water

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• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  Sally Ride

  Earth, Littles, Saws

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• For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its time to move on to the next stage.

  Andrew Gould

  Moving, Hands, Long

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• After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing

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• There are probably already too many people on the planet.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Global Warming, Climate Change

  "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  William James

  Change, Believe, Reality

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Struggle, Heaven, Fierce

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.639, Pearson Education

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• The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Believe, Inquiry, Tables

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• The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

  Daphne Zuniga

  Nature, Support, Doe

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• We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

  Mary Daly

  Science, Rivers, Environmental

  Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Boys, Important

  "Live From", www.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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