Octillion Number Quotes & Sayings

At night, when human discords and harmonies are hushed, ... there is nothing to moderate the blow with which the infinitely great, the stellar universe, strikes down upon the infinitely little, the mind of the beholder ... Having got closer to immensity than their fellow-creatures, they saw at once its beauty and its frightfulness. They more and more felt the contrast between their own tiny magnitudes and those among which they had recklessly plunged, till they were oppressed with the presence of a vastness they could not cope with even as an idea, and which hung about them like a nightmare. — Thomas Hardy

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon. — Jewel

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child. — Ossie Davis

Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Our central job is not to solve the world's problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simpler - and nothing could be more challenging. — Gregory A. Boyd

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. — Prince Philip

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. — Denis Waitley

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself. — Elaine Dundy

I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way. — Agnes Obel

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader. — Richard Branson