460 quotes found
“Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.”
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
“[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.”
“Silent is the ruined land.Man is brutaland the rain does not wash awaythe painor rid the distant memory.It makes it glisten.”
“Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was ty...”
“A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.”
“Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.”
“Summer is a gentleman: slowly warming the earth at length before undressing her in the fall.”
“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans beca...”
“Gods goal is to establish His righteousness on this earth”
“That person in the mirror is just the outside, your earth suit; the real you resides on the inside”
“If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth”
“One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)”
“God created heaven on earth but man created hell.”
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the infinite. Assess it like prose, like poetry, like architecture, sculpture, painting, dan...”
“While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.”
“He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at...”
“War in heaven makes no peace on earth.”
“The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among t...”
“The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analo...”
