Planets Quotes - Page 26

• How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

  John Updike

  Bored, So Bored

  John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”

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• A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Heaven, Earth, Fool

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• Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.

  Lester Thurow

  Imperfection, Doe, Elimination

  Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage

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• Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?

  Bill Maher

  People, Rewards, Resources

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• Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Thinking, People, Despair

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• How old is the sun? Sun not temporary, not chronological. There is the terra-celestial and the celestial. I am celestial, mon. I am here, there and everywhere. I live among men so I must adjust myself. When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too, mon.

  Peter Tosh

  Men, Sun, Celestial

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• My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

  Angie Harmon

  Husband, Father, Brilliant

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• Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Feelings, Goes On

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

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• If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.

  Denis Boyles

  Hurt, Pain, Stupid

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• I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Age, Mars, Venus

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. October 21, 2009.

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• "What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Jobs, Wind, Imagination

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• If you sell the Vatican and you take that money and you use it to feed every single human being on the planet, you will get cah-azy pussy. All the pussy. I don't mean literally. That might not be your cup of tea. I don't know what your version of 'all the pussy' is. But you'll get all the pussy.

  Sarah Silverman

  Mean, Tea, Pussy

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• I am left alone on the surface
  of a turning planet.

  R. S. Thomas

  Surface

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Threshold", p. 110), 1981.

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• The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Grandchildren, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.70, Seven Stories Press

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• The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Care, Don't Care

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• The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many years, dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave crew of the Enterprise set out, wearing pajamas, to explore the boundless voids of space, which turned out to be as densely populated as Queens, New York. Virtually every planet they found was inhabited, usually by evil beings with cheap costumes and Russian accents, so finally the brave crew of the Enterprise returned to Earth to gain weight and make movies.

  Dave Barry

  Stars, Queens, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.270, Ballantine Books

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Support, Survival

  Inaugural address, 20 January 1961, in 'Vital Speeches' 1 February 1961, p. 227

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• Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...

  Robert Kennedy

  Adventure, Yield, Imagination

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?

  Tony Bennett

  Race, Together, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Hymns, Imagination

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Animal, Moon, Disrespect

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Isis, Organization, Together

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm the worst speller on the planet. I'm so glad for spellcheck on my phone.

  Allison Janney

  Phones, Worst, Glad

  "‘Bad Words’ Set Interview with Allison Janney". Interview on a Set, screenrant.com. March 06, 2014.

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• It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of them were scientists and some were crew members working on the ship. Just to hear their stories, like what drew them to Greenpeace in the first place and what they've been through. Every single second of the day they work to save the planet, which makes me as an actor feel quite insignificant.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  People, Nine, Ships

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

  April Gornik

  Real, Fighting, Animal

  "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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