Gravity Quotes

• It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

  Stephen Hawking

  Shapes, Four, Structure

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• You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

  Clayton Christensen

  Hate, Zero Gravity, Care

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• Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

  Warren Miller

  Leap Of Faith, Skiing, Skis

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• Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Karma, Bad Karma, Good Karma

  "The 12 Principles of Pyong'hwa: Pathways and Perspectives for More Peace and Tranquility in Life". Book by Steev Ramsdell, 2012.

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• Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Tape, Fundamentals

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

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Firsts

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• I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

  Tinie Tempah

  Earth, Down To Earth

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• Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

  Confucius

  Science, Tree, Bark

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• There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Reflection, Melancholy

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.114

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• Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

  Dave Barry

  Falling In Love, Zero Gravity, Percent

  "Problems Of Utmost Gravity" by Dave Barry, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 15, 1998.

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• Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mind, Too Much, Arguing

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• It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

  David Soul

  Thinking, Over You, Body

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• Love is metaphysical gravity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.374, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

  Adam Savage

  Law, Ideas, Pilots

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• I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Journey, Thinking, Swings

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• Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Creation Of The Universe, There Being No God

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Air, Space

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• From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

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• I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

  Pliny the Elder

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Math, Hands

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Convincing

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• You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

  Alan Cohen

  Delight, Kites, Littles

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• The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy vagary, a disgrace to our age.

  Charles Lane Poor

  Crazy, Science, Space

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• 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Science, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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