Geophysical Society Quotes & Sayings

Once I was asked if I had to take a test with the school board to prove I was competent to teach my children. My answer, "God made me competent to teach my children when He ordained me to be their mother. — Jamerrill Stewart

I came to realize that it hadn't really been up to me to chase after him. It had been Luke's choice not to stay
with me. — Kate Le Vann

You remember what happened when Eddie Pipp got hurt? A guy named Lou Gehrig took over. — Mike Ditka

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. — George Saunders

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can't hear you. — Holly Robinson

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did. — Archie Panjabi

Your decisions in hours of failure would determine whether you will forever be where you are or you will move out of that situation. — Israelmore Ayivor

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places. — Yvon Chouinard

This microcosm was pregnant with the germ of a proper time and space, and all the kinds of cosmical beings. Within this punctual cosmos the myriad but not unnumbered physical centers of power, which men conceive vaguely as electrons, protons, and the rest, were at first coincident with one another. And they were dormant. The matter of ten million galaxies lay dormant in a point. — Olaf Stapledon

If I die, what a beautiful death. — Philippe Petit

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky ... you're mindset does. — Robert Kiyosaki

No," Gideon says. "No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it. — Paula Stokes

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love. — Rainbow Rowell

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day. — Dava Sobel