Axis Angle Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot

If the nodal axis astronomically resembles an angle, behaves as an angle, it should not only be considered an angle, it is, in fact, an angle. — Kathy Allan

The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Summer had so many tricks. The nights lasted longer than the days, even though the angle of the Earth's axis meant that was impossible. The night couldn't be longer, but summer made it seem that way. Summer sneaked time for me, taking a minute from February, three minutes from English class in March, ten whole minutes from a boring Thursday in April. Summer stole time to give me another hour under the stars with Kellen. — Bryn Greenwood

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning. — Sheryl Crow

He's lying against a bale of hay and talking to his reindeer. That's odd. No, wait - he is singing to his reindeer. That's even odder. — Elise Allen

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun. — Jeanette Winterson

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries. — Dave Brat

Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two different things. — Kass Morgan

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. — Jacky Ickx

There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming ... All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun. — John Williams

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do. — Kristen Wiig

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand. — Erwin McManus

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. — Henry James

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that. — George Schaller