Quotes About Station

Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

a station which raises a man too eminently above the level of his fellow-creatures is not the most favourable to moral or to intellectual qualities

And in the months since the destruction of the Empire's dread battle station, we have already liberated countless planets in the name of the Alliance.

Somehow, the remaining factions of the Empire are still fueling their war effort even months after the destruction of their second battle station.

Reminds me of that urban legend about hearing voices in the white noise of a television tuned to a station that's off the air

Cora never got his name, nor that of the town of departure. Just that he was another person of subterranean inclinations—and a taste for imported white tile. The walls of the station were covered with it.

See who I am, whose great age, exhausted and decayed and past the fertile time for truth, deludes me with imaginary dread when I prophesy of warring kings! Look now at this. I come from the Dread Sisters' station; and in my hand I bear war and death.

His only airings, and these were brief and perfunctory, were taken in the company of Wilson, Miss Barrett's maid. For the rest of the day he kept his station on the sofa at Miss Barrett's feet. All his natural instincts were thwarted and contradicted.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves.

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation?

Having whistled his way well into the recapitulation, he turned and headed toward the bus station.

Ouch, my butthole hurts, but I really need to have a look at that firestation.

If in the end Erso's research moves us closer to engineering a weapon for the battle station, then you will have not only my gratitude, but also that of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Republic itself." Krennic restrained a smile. "We all play our part, Vice Chancellor.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

It truly is a privilege to work and to live here, and to be able to do both makes this just a really unique experience. And so as the only rookie in the group, it was really an honor to become a part of an expedition and see what it's like to fly the International Space Station.

I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.