Gravity Quotes - Page 14

• With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

  Nick Park

  Real, Thinking, Light

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• Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

  Conrad Hyers

  Family, Children, Irritation

  Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian...it is anti-Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Sports, Christian, Cheating

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• If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Light, Self

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• When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Successful, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

  Ray Stevenson

  Jeans, Center Of Gravity

  "Ray Stevenson (Volstag) and Joshua Dallas (Fandril) On Set Interview THOR". Interview on the Set, collider.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us away from the many events, activities, and people that make up our lives. . . . He asks us to shift the point of gravity, to relocate the center of our attention, to change our priorities. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Heart, Worry

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• Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Fields, Awareness

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• The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

  Mara Liasson

  Approval Rating, Giving, President

  "Jobs Back At Political Forefront". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 8, 2012.

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• Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Book, Writing, Difficult Questions

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• Don't talk to me about gravity. When I get out of bed in the morning, I have to be careful not to step on my breasts.

  Joan Rivers

  Morning, Bed, Body

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• When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Notebook, Prayer, Memories

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting. However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever.

  Stephen Hawking

  Strong, Forever, Causes

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Elephants, Shining, Awkward

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• The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

  Bret Harte

  Children, Expression, Childhood

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• They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, Grief, Emotional

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

  Laini Taylor

  Law, Flying

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fall, Feelings, Hitting Bottom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.

  John Noble

  Eye, Night, Sky

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• Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.

  Nick Harkaway

  Discovery, Body, May

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• Long live gravity! Long live
  stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces
  of fantasy capitalism!

  Wendell Berry

  Errors, Long, Stupidity

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.80, The Golden Sufi Center

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, Twenties

  Briefing at Foreign Press Center, Washington, D.C., 22 Jan. 2003

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• The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any outcome. It's as natural and powerful as the force of gravity.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Powerful, Creative, Vision

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• The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

  Carl Jung

  Father, Roots, Might

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

  Barbara Hambly

  Boring, Know How, Oneself

  Barbara Hambly (2011). “The Silent Tower”, p.66, Open Road Media

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