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Quotes About Earth

He did not believe, and yet he admitted the supernatural. Right here on earth how could any of us deny that we are hemmed in by mystery, in our homes, in the street,—everywhere when we came to think of it?
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Now God refused to come down to earth in the form of potato-flour; that was an undeniable, indisputable fact.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
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.
~ Jose Marti
Yo sé que el necio se entierra Con gran lujo y con gran llanto, - Y que no hay fruta en la tierra Como la del camposanto.
~ Jose Marti
A good soul on earth hurts very much.
~ Jose Marti
AÅŸk?n yeryüzünün en önemli ÅŸeyi olduÄŸunu keÅŸfettim.
~ José Mauro de Vasconcelos
La tierra es madre de todos, pero también da ponzoña
~ José Hernández
Clamé al cielo, y no me oyó. Mas, si sus puertas me cierra, de mis pasos en la Tierra responda el cielo, no yo.
~ José Zorrilla
Paraíso de la tierra Cuyos mágicos jardines Con sus manos de jazmines Cultivó celeste hurí, La salud en tí se encierra En tí mora la alegría En tus sierras nace el dia Y arde el sol de amor por tí.
~ José Zorrilla
Llamé al cielo y no me oyó, y pues sus puertas me cierra, de mis pasos en la tierra responda el cielo, y no yo.
~ José Zorrilla
In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it's time for a mutiny.
~ Jose Arguelles
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.
~ Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate.
~ Jose Marti
There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one's dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one's life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.
~ Josef Å kvorecký
Their is beauty everywhere on earth.
~ Josef Å kvorecký
Soon as the evening shades prevail,The moon takes up the wondrous tale,And nightly to the listening earthRepeats the story of her birth;While all the stars that round her burn,And all the planets in their turn,Confirm the tidings as they roll,And spread the truth from pole to pole.
~ Joseph Addison
operate within a new form of science that asks not just what is possible, but what is appropriate—appropriate to the well-being of self and Earth. Such a question does not originate in the mental realm but the spiritual, and is felt bodily, once our senses and heart are attuned. So the central part of our being that simply must be allowed to function and be attended is the heart.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
The ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet.
~ Joseph Conrad
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
~ Joseph Conrad
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
~ Joseph Conrad
Thus is worked out, from maggots up to man, the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole earth, continually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world,the extinction of evil,the death of death.
~ Joseph de Maistre
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.
~ Joseph de Maistre
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
~ Joseph de Maistre
What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded. 'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.
~ Joseph Delaney