Top 25 Gravity Quotes of 92 - Page 2

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

Credit, Cold, Gravity

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Profound, Joy, Gravity

Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.313

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

Laurel Clark

Variables, Process, Gravity

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

H. G. Wells

Stars, Trouble, Gravity

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Roy H. Williams

Light, Different, Gravity

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

Mark Dever

Scripture, Authority, Gravity

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

Cecil Day-Lewis

Aviation, Flight, Gravity

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Tim O'Brien

Substance, Weight, Gravity

Tim O'Brien (2011). “Tomcat in Love”, p.46, Broadway Books

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

Mira Grant

Stupid, Hands, Gravity

Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.13, Hachette UK

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Marianne Moore

Fabric, Excitement, Gravity

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Josh Billings

Gravity, Particular

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Douglas William Jerrold

Gravity, Convincing

Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.

Daniel Tosh

Believe, People, Gravity

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.

Caroline Myss

Mind, Awareness, Gravity

The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

Albert Einstein

Thinking, Firsts, Gravity

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

William Allingham

Sea, Gravity, Trifles

William Allingham (1907). “William Allingham: a diary”

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

Jon Foreman

Together, Gravity, Pulling

Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward.

Jessica Simpson

Gravity, Asks

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

Henry Fielding

Country, Sin, Gravity

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy, James P. Browne (1871). “Preface. Essay on the life and genius of Henry Fielding, esq. Love in several masques, a comedy. The temple beau, a comedy. The author's farce; with a puppet shew, called The pleasures of the town. The coffee house politician; or, The justice caught in his own trap, a comedy. The tragedy of tragedies; or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great”, p.384