Planetwise Quotes & Sayings

You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. I — Sarah Dessen

You have not realized yet that both of you are mine, have you? — D.S. Wrights

A group of us are going to do something. — Tom Burnett

The evident problem with democracy today is that the state is pre-empting - or "crowding out," as the economists say - our moral judgments. Rulers are adding moral judgments to the expanding schedule of powers they exercise. Nor does the state deal merely with principles. It is actually telling its subjects to do very specific things. Yet decisions about how we live are what we mean by "freedom," and freedom is incompatible with a moralizing state. That is why I am provoked to ask the question: can the moral life survive democracy? — Kenneth Minogue

Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2 — Ravi Zacharias

In statecraft, as in medicine, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. The power of propaganda should never be discounted, — Ashwin Sanghi

But I did - I did want to write a book, and I knew what the first line would be: "Maybe I shouldn't have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but he'll never call me anyway. No one will ever call me again." And this was based on a true thing. See, the doctor that pumped my stomach sent me flowers. With a note that read: "I can tell that you are a very warm and sensitive person." All that from the contents of my stomach! I was tempted to marry him so I could tell people how we met. — Carrie Fisher

That was the thing about pictures
they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones. — Melissa De La Cruz

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it. — Wayne Coyne

Singh in computational biology held forth on her theory of the protomolecule as a Guzman-style quantum computer one night over dinner, and when Kibushi used the information without citing her, she snuck into the showers at the gymnasium and beat him to death with a ceramic workbench cap. — James S.A. Corey

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting. — Jerry Coleman

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am. — Luther Burbank

The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity. — Jacques Chirac