Carl Sagan Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Blue Quotes

What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Night Quotes , Blue Quotes

Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Eye Quotes , Blue Quotes

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Flower Quotes , Blue Quotes

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Spring Quotes , Blue Quotes

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Blue Quotes , Hands Quotes

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Blue Quotes

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Wall Quotes , Blue Quotes

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Blue Quotes

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Stars Quotes , Blue Quotes

MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Running Quotes , Blue Quotes

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Lying Quotes , Blue Quotes

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Blue Quotes

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Cat Quotes , Blue Quotes

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Blue Quotes , Long Quotes

The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blue Quotes

...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , God Quotes , Blue Quotes

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Army Quotes , Blue Quotes

The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Blue Quotes

Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Flower Quotes , Blue Quotes