Earth Quotes - Page 99

I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.

There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.

Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.

Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.

Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground.

I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" He said "I have nothing to declare but my genius." I said "I'll put that down as nothing then shall I?" For I am the wittiest man on Earth.

Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have died this way when a metropolis-sized asteroid or comet struck the earth 65 million years ago.