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Quotes About Comet

worried capitalist is like a comet: he always presages some disaster for the world.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A crestfallen capitalist is like a comet: he always warns of some great misfortune to come.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the
~ Alexandre Dumas
Doctor: Nyssa, we can't get you out of there just yet. I'm sorry. Nyssa: I know. Doctor: The TARDIS has gone missing. I'm sorry, I have to concentrate- Nyssa: I know, Doctor. You don't have to keep saying you're sorry. Doctor: We'll come for you. When all of this is over we'll follow the comet and get you back. Nyssa: You once said much the same thing to somebody else.
~ Eddie Robson
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. the idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
~ Edward Bellamy
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
~ Edward Bellamy
I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
~ Ben Carson
In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it was funny, it had an important message.
~ Brian Herbert
When the members of the "Heaven's Gate" cult failed to spot the spacecraft they knew must be trailing the comet Hale-Bopp, they returned the $4,000 telescope they had bought for this purpose, believing it to be defective.
~ Sam Harris
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she'd held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I'd always thought I couldn't remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.
~ Sarah Dessen
Möcht' ich ein Komet seyn? Ich glaube. Denn sie haben die Schnelligkeit der Vögel; sie blühen an Feuer, und sind wie Kinder in Reinheit. Größeres zu wünschen, kann nicht des Menschen Natur sich vermessen.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
~ Tycho Brahe
Mrs. Gley came down in a rush. She had on a kind of tea gown whose draperies flew out behind her, like the tail of a blowzy comet.
~ Ross MacDonald
We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling through space, missing the stars by inches.
~ Anne Fadiman
Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.
~ Conan O'Brien
What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the planet.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
~ Ann Druyan
Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in.
~ Heidi Hammel
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
~ Mark Twain
Si un cometa chocara contra este montón de polvo nuestro y lo convirtiera en mil millones de fragmentos que salieran disparados hacia el espacio, si su ardiente aliento lamiera cada forma de vida como una polilla se marchita con una vela, todavía, al final de mil millones de años, la más diminuta partícula de nuestros cuerpos seguiría existiendo.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Was the Younger Dryas cold event that began so suddenly and so mysteriously 12,800 years ago brought on by the effects of a large comet hitting the earth?
~ Graham Hancock
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
~ Gregory Maguire
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
~ Maria Mitchell
Que importa tampouco que os astrônomos afirmem que foi um cometa que passou sobre a Bahia naquela noite? O que Pedro Bala viu foi Dora feita estrela, indo para o céu.
~ Jorge Amado