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DR. CARL SAGAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have t...
JOSEPH JOUBERT In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single sto...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ... in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like "the ordina...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance th...
J.G. BALLARD She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mank...
HENRY BROOKE The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.
CARL SAGAN All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than one single act of kindness.
KAORU SHINMON We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye...
GARY F EVANS... When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation o...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a singl...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a singl...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL What the world really needs is a single information resource that excels across the board. We will s...
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ZHUANGZI Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewh...
DIANE SETTERFIELD In today's world, the large divorce rate does play a part. There are other factors, and whatever the...
GORDON KETTLE Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE No. 21, we've got to contain him - he wreaks havoc in there. We've got to single him out.
HINES WARD Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sa...
CARL SAGAN He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental facto...
THOMAS R. INSEL Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal ...
TONI MORRISON At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information...
JAMES GLEICK He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of s...
RICHARD DAWKINS The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing G...
MIKE HUCKABEE a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucle...
CARL SAGAN An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silen...
CHARLES DELINT You have to accept the realities of the world in which we live. The U.S. is a superpower. It carries...
MALCOLM RIFKIND Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES Logic is rare!
What's the purpose of it and even studying math getting higher results and after...
DEYTH BANGER When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens ...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi...
AULIQ ICE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More informati...
JAMES E. FAUST I expect in 10 years you will still have a music player that is just good for music. I do not think ...
IAN FOGG Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
NIKOLAI A. BERDYAEV There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear te...
IRWIN REDLENER We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property...
BILL DEDMAN I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything a...
WARREN ZINN We've got all these bits of information in different institutions,
ACHIM STEINER In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of thes...
ALDO LEOPOLD There's not a single person in our community that isn't aware of the success that they've had. They ...
KIRK EVENSON The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...
FIDEL CASTRO The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling...
ZAINAB SALBI If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treas...
ANDREAS CAPELLANUS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have never seen an increase like it. I don't think any stock market in the world has risen more th...
RAFAEL ALCANTARA We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Anim...
NED VIZZINI Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York ...
PHILIP MORRISON There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.
TOBA BETA A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki...
A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY Nothing hurts you unless you let it.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE Gnutella is a decentralized system. There's no single server that tells you all the information of w...
ARAM SINNREICH Because dancing is way more fun than the treadmill, I downloaded the video of Beyonce's 'Sin...
MARISSA JARET WINOKUR There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life...
JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth....
SIRI HUSTVEDT There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corr...
DAVID REMNICK Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Nothing in the world is single
All things by law divine
In one another's being mingle
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY [Still,] what I think is best for the city is redeveloping the whole site, ... It will have a dramat...
BRUCE MILLS In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And h...
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CARL SAGAN It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...
CARL SAGAN Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer...
CARL SAGAN To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGAN As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, ...
CARL SAGAN We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st...
CARL SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men...
CARL SAGAN If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world ...
CARL SAGAN Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid ...
CARL SAGAN Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
CARL SAGAN We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGAN Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
CARL SAGAN We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand sun...
CARL SAGAN You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGAN Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soi...
CARL SAGAN The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what...
CARL SAGAN One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...
CARL SAGAN Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGAN The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...
CARL SAGAN If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ...
CARL SAGAN Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
CARL SAGAN The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
CARL SAGAN We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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