Tendant On Side Quotes & Sayings

It is well to understand how empty space is. If, as we have said, the sun were a ball nine feet across, our earth would, in proportion, be the size of a one-inch ball, and at a distance of 323 yards from the sun. The moon would be a speck the size of a small pea, thirty inches from the earth. Nearer to the sun than the earth would be two other very similar specks, the planets Mercury and Venus, at a distance of 125 and 250 yards respectively. Beyond the earth would come the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, at distances of 500, 1806, 3000, 6000, and 9500 yards respectively. — H.G.Wells

He who loves his work never labors. — Jim Stovall

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. — John Milton

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life. — Eknath Easwaran

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine. — Byron Katie

All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do. — A.B. Simpson

The last five years had been a series of carefully orchestrated events. Every move, every strategy had been poured over in painstaking detail before it was set into motion.
Pieces on a chess board.
A collision of fate and circumstance. I'd planned for every hitch. Every contingency. Except the one that blindsided me like a vat of acid to the face.
I fell in love with her. — A. Zavarelli

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct. — Robert Anton Wilson

Maybe, if she was standing before that sleeping king, she'd ask the king to save Gansey's life. — Maggie Stiefvater