Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Hamel

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Remain true to the earth.

Graham Norton

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

Horace

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Michael Jones

If food and other essential items can no longer be airlifted into the mountain valleys, the earthquake survivors, who have no other means of subsistence, will be at further risk.

Heidi Fleiss

I am opening up a stud farm, ... I am going to have the sexiest men on earth. Women are going to love it.

I don't think they knew what was going on. I think they had to come down to earth a little bit.

I do not perceive that gaining an unrivaled and prosperous kingdom on this earth, or even lordship over the gods will remove the sorrow that is drying up my senses.

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Hunter S. Thompson

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

J. William Fulbright

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Robert Montgomery

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Neale Donald Walsch

Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace.

Morena Baccarin

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

James Thurber

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

James P. Hogan

On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?

James MacGregor Burns

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Novalis

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

Epicurus

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

All solid parts of the earth therefore owe their origin to living things, and without that life the earth would be still entirely liquid.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

Henry F. Ashurst

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance....

Khalil Gibran

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

Merrill Markoe

Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.

Ted Cruz

I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it.

Ted Cruz

Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

James Lovelock

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.