Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
~By Anne Sexton ~
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
~By Abdul Qadeer Khan ~
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
~By Thomas Arnold ~
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
~By Bill Bryson ~
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
~By John Lennon ~
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
~By Hale Irwin ~
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
My sisters are my favorite people on earth.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
~By John Barrow ~
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
~By Bill Condon ~
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
~By Susan Powter ~
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.
~By Miguel Ferrer ~
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
~By Neville Chamberlain ~
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
~By King George V ~
Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
~By Archibald Alexander ~
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.
~By Phil Lesh ~
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
~By Edith Piaf ~
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
~By Romain Rolland ~
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
~By Bill Cosby ~
The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
~By Ernst Haeckel ~
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
~By Charles Hodge ~
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
~By Johann G. Seume ~
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
~By Billie Holiday ~
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
~By Edwin Markham ~
How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
~By Daley Thompson ~
Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
~By Beah Richards ~
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
~By Michael Servetus ~
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
~By Warren Rudman ~
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
~By Carl Jung ~
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
~By Prince Charles ~
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.
~By John Jewel ~
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
~By Daniel Nathans ~
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
~By Ayn Rand ~
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
~By Li Po ~
If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.
~By Jonathan Frakes ~
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
~By Karl Popper ~
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
~By Nicholas Mosley ~
I am very down to earth and practical.
~By Ashley Olsen ~
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
~By Mike Epps ~
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
~By George Crumb ~
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
~By Peter Brook ~
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
~By Keith Moon ~
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
~By M. Kathleen Casey ~
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
~By Calvin Klein ~
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
~By George Chapman ~
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
~By William James ~
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
~By Chief Joseph ~
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
~By John Burroughs ~
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
~By Tab Hunter ~
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
~By Barney Oliver ~
You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
~By Patricia Sun ~
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
~By Thomas Wolfe ~
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
~By John Astin ~
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
~By Edith Piaf ~
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