Quotes of Orbit - somelinesforyou

“ What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again. ”

- Bible

“ The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. ”

- Robert Pirsig

“ Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. ”

- Brigham Young

“ There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion. ”

- John McDonald

“ What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha — which is to demean oneself. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ Silence is the speech of love,The music of the spheres above. ”

- Richard Henry Stoddard

“ Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. ”

- Carl von Clausewitz

“ When you're going around in circles, it is not progress to report a sharp increase in circles completed. ”

- Robert Brault

“ With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. ”

- John Dryden

“ Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. ”

- Peter Levi

“ Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands. ”

- John Dryden

“ Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. ”

- Henry More

“ IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. ”

- Edward Carpenter

“ People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away. ”

- Bernie Ecclestone

“ I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle. ”

- Nicolaus Copernicus

“ As on this whirligig of Time/ We circle with the seasons. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end. ”

- Unknown

“ Leave women to find their sphere. ”

- Lucy Stone

“ In orbit now we have a small but harmonious collection of Soviet people. ”

- Vladimir M. Komarov

“ I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. ”

- Brian Walker

“ An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again… ”

- The Holy Bible
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