Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~By Dalai Lama ~
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
~By John D. Barrow ~
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
~By Democritus ~
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
~By Anais Nin ~
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
~By Lao Tzu ~
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
~By James Gunn ~
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
~By John Osborne ~
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
~By Frank Zappa ~
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
~By William Gibson ~
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
~By Scott Adams ~
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
~By Francis William Aston ~
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
~By Chris Chocola ~
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
~By Helmut Walcha ~
I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
~By Richard H. Baker ~
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
~By E. M. Forster ~
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
~By Giuseppe Verdi ~
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
~By Juan Williams ~
From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.
~By Jean Piaget ~
The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
~By Orson Pratt ~
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
~By Joyce Cary ~
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
~By Dean Inge ~
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.
~By George Wald ~
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.
~By Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ~
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
~By James Prescott Joule ~
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
~By Manuel Puig ~
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.
~By William Lyons ~
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
~By Larry Wall ~
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~By Jean Houston ~
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
~By Jose Marti ~
Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
~By Giuseppe Garibaldi ~
Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
~By Mark Millar ~
For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.
~By Albert Claude ~
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
~By Albert Einstein ~
You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.
~By Robert Patrick ~
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
The universe is an intelligence test.
~By Timothy Leary ~
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
~By Rebecca West ~
Near the sun is the center of the universe.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
~By Loren Eiseley ~
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
~By Orlando Gibbons ~
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
~By Joan Jett ~
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
~By John Hartford ~
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
~By George G. Simpson ~
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
~By David Hume ~
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
~By Judith Wright ~
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
~By Dan Millman ~
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
~By Grace Slick ~
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
~By Carlton Fisk ~
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.
~By Lawrence Summers ~
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
~By Catharine Beecher ~
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
~By Jacques Lacan ~
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.
~By Craig Bruce ~
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