Gravity Quotes - Page 12

• If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'

  Louis de Montfort

  Rosary, Saint, Crowns

  St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.13, TAN Books

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• Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Letting Go, Spring, Fall

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• Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.

  Arlene Croce

  Humor, Men, Light

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• If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

  Norman Mailer

  Curves, Wind, Would Be

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.570, Henry Holt and Company

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• There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Liberty

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.334, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

  Adam Riess

  Fall, Apples, Tree

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• If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a pleasant feeling

  Junzo Yoshimura

  Thinking, Serenity, House

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• Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Views, Government, Stones

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• Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspiration, Reading, Exercise

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• Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Enemy, Architecture, Insidious

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• There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Effectiveness, Law

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.

  Andy Andrews

  Apples, Long, Principles

  ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better.

  Jen Lancaster

  Perspective, Missing, Tears

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• Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  People, Giving, Way

  Interview with Germano Celant, www.artinamericamagazine.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as though her veins were full of wine.

  Lola Montez

  Girl, Running, Religious

  "The Arts of Beauty".

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• The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

  Scott Mandia

  Cancer, Fall, Smoking

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

  Jon Foreman

  Together, Pulling, Ifs

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• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

  Brian Greene

  Motivation, Inspiration, Curves

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• The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’

  Etienne Decroux

  Hero, Angel, Men

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• You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

  Shawn Achor

  Forever, Study

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.11, Random House

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• I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.

  Jane Hamilton

  Strong, Moving, Blood

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• You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster

  Saul Perlmutter

  Might, Faster, Expanding

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• Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Some of the various densities of the aether have only a partial or probablistic differentiation into existence, and are somewhat indeterminate in space and time. In the same way that mass exists as a curvature in space-time, extending with a gradually diminishing force to infinity that we recognize as gravity, so do all events, particularly events involving the human mind, send ripples through all creation.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Space, Agency, Mind

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.52, Weiser Books

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• It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Age, Quality

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• Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

  George Vecsey

  Art, Robins, Gorgeous

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