Earth Quotes - Page 69

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

Bless be the ones who serve others. They are the ones who find heaven on earth.

Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

I love Lil Wayne, that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.