Earth Quotes - Page 127

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the part of the Earth where it actually struck; perhaps even we might cry quits if while one kingdom were devastated, the rest of the Earth were to enjoy the rarities which a body which came from so far might bring it. Perhaps we should be very surprised to find that the debris of these masses that we despised were formed of gold and diamonds; but who would be the most astonished, we, or the comet-dwellers, who would be cast on our Earth? What strange being each would find the other!

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

Quebecers are happy in Canada. We are benefiting economically and fiscally from belonging to Canada. We're proud of being Canadian. It's a great country. Everybody on Earth envies our Canadian citizenship.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.

A lot of girls walk this earth telling people they've slept with me. And a lot of them did. But I don't remember 95 percent of them.

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.