Planets Quotes - Page 24

• Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

  Parker Posey

  Running, Twenties, Intense

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

  Seth Godin

  Hero, Discovery, Two

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.28, Penguin

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• in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

  Helen Caldicott

  Development, Earth, Biology

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

  Helen Caldicott

  Eye, Ozone, Vision

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?

  Pamala Oslie

  Love, Technology, Perfect

  Pamala Oslie (2010). “Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras”, p.3, New World Library

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• Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that.

  Cathy Lamb

  People, Floating, Sanity

  Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.161, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Waiting, Mars

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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 its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).

  John Noble Wilford

  Eye, Night, Light

  John Noble Wilford (1991). “Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space”, Vintage

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• Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Monday, Morning, Hangover

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• New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

  Rachel McAdams

  New York, Actors, Unemployed

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• I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

  Wesley Snipes

  Men, Black, Fiction

  "Wesley Snipes is Ready To Pay" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. March 29, 2010.

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• I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

  Jaden Smith

  Want, Prana, Persons

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.

  Miles Teller

  Animal, Bananas, Peeling

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• How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.

  Gloria Reuben

  Children, Years, Care

  "A Louisiana Mother’s Day Wish" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

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• If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

  David R. Brower

  Looks, Ifs

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• I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Rooms, Rivalry

  "Cyndi Lauper: This much I know". Interview With Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

  Mathieu Kerekou

  Strong, Community, Proud

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• If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

  Joan Slonczewski

  Would Be, Patriarchy, Ifs

  Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.393, Macmillan

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• Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

  John Wagner

  Telescopes, Looks, Thanks

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• When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'

  Quentin Tarantino

  Views, Blood, America

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• We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, America, Debt

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Climate Action, Politics, Climate Change

  "EU sets targets of 40% carbon cut and 27% share of renewables by 2030". Live, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2014.

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• If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

  James Hansen

  Nature, Climate, World

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

  James Hansen

  Motivation, Different, Protection

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• The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

  J. G. Ballard

  Stars, Energy, Orbit

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