Earth Quotes - Page 95

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

I never want to lose my Canadian-ness...and when I say Canadian-ness, I mean down-to-earth. I like being able to not take myself seriously and to not feel entitled.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

Doing a space walk. It is one of the most rare human experiences. To leave your spaceship and go outside, so that you are alone in the universe with Earth distant and the universe around you. That is amazing.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.

Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.