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Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.


David Brin

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Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
MANUEL MONGRAIN Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; c...
MARCELENE COX But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.
KHADIJA RUPA Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet...
WALT MOSSBERG Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
OVID Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
OVID If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not so...
JOHN LYDON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
COLUM MCCANN I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO You mean they killed her?" asked David.
They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge....
JOHN CONNOLLY Everyone on campus knows there is a problem, but it will be my job to articulate the problem and put...
BENJAMIN ALLEN Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
ERICH FROMM Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like...
LAURA WADE God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare...
MARCELLO GIORDANI Tunazaliwa na kufa. Lakini hatujui tunakotoka. Wala hatujui tunakokwenda. Huenda tunatoka na kwenda ...
ENOCK MAREGESI So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is ...
ANNE LAMOTT Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
DEYTH BANGER Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe.
INTERNET MEME PROVERB Less energy in a given volume tells you that the universe should be expanding slower, but because it...
HITOSHI MURAYAMA I've had good results working with David on committees and on things that need to be passed. David i...
DON BELL Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
AYAD AKHTAR Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spe...
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN Some of the spins he has learned on his skateboard had never been done before, because we, as skater...
TONY HAWK When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it ...
EDWIN BOURDET When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it ...
EDOUARD BOURDET We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, a...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Life is a circle. It spins you around.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's...
KEVIN GATES Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting s...
KIP THORNE At the end, what matters is that you tried
SOTONYE ANGA It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years n...
BUDDHA Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor
STEPHEN KING I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the string...
KYLE MACLACHLAN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN American society is sort of a flat fresh water pond, which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
HENRY ADAMS What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we&#...
MELODY BEATTIE You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
SIMON COWELL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is a David and Goliath battle, It's always been that, and that's what it's always going to be.
VINCE MEGNA Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into...
ANTHONY JOSHUA To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.
PREITY ZINTA Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you ast...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Invest your life into what you were born to do.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon lea...
MARK ZANDI Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them.
YAJUR VEDA Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always con...
MARY STEENBURGEN You must not have a royal lineage or be born into the families of generational wealth to be a succes...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You appreciate now what David Beckham goes through - on a larger scale.
MRS JONES You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires ...
JAMES LOVELOCK Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout...
NAZANIN BONIADI Gaia has left us wonder wherever we go, if we only open our eyes to it." ~ Atticus
KEVIN HEARNE He’s always looking out windows,
contemplating something.
JAY ASHER American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
HENRY ADAMS America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and...
ALPHONSO JACKSON I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
GAL GADOT As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a prim...
FRANCIS COLLINS It could help, because I can work even more on my spins. If you're just a fastball pitcher, it's goi...
DANI CARON It's far too early to be contemplating those kinds of partnerships.
BARRY WEST It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J.K. ROWLING It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. ROWLING it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about th...
MELIKA DANNESE LUX Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in co...
STEPHEN KING You were not born to impress the world, but to impress the universe.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a ve...
SETH GABEL It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
DAVID BROOKS It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The Universe is about maintaining balance, not fairness. It is by means of balance that true fairnes...
LEOT FELTON That's the typical David Bell play -- on the run, and you knew it would be on target. It was a reall...
CORY LIDLE I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I ran into David over a year ago. I came into town and wanted to congratulate him on becoming commis...
JEFF HARVEY The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduce...
GEORGE FRIEDMAN Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were...
ROBIN COSTE LEWIS I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. Th...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN A man cannot be born again in a lower world; but can only be born into a Brahman world, before he re...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and te...
TAHEREH MAFI To truly be satisfied in life, you must invest your time into doing what you were born to do instead...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sometimes the paintings decide what they are going to be. That's fun. That means I'll be tapping int...
ELLEN THORSEN But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I like to play jokes on ...
ASHLEY BENSON We need to explain to people what it means to be a Spartan.
ANDREW BELL I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming r...
ANDREW KENDALL My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.
EMILY GIFFIN I think he's got a great attitude. He's very much like me in that he's sarcastic. Some sarcastic peo...
RYAN NEWMAN We are contemplating whether to make a contribution,
ROBERT HILL How desperate she had been for a storybook ending, and a life to which Gaia would always want to ret...
J.K. ROWLING Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on...
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DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
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