Carl Sagan Quotes, Stars Quotes, Night Quotes

Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.

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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

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

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stars Quotes , Night Quotes

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Stars Quotes

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

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Tags : A. R. Ammons Quotes , Stars Quotes , Four Quotes

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dwelling Quotes

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stars Quotes , Home Quotes

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Stars Quotes , Men Quotes

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Stars Quotes

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Stars Quotes , Shining Quotes

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dark Quotes

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Stars Quotes , Heaven Quotes

To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Stars Quotes , Administration Quotes

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

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Tags : Alan Ladd Quotes , Stars Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Stars Quotes , Justice Quotes

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Girl Quotes , Stars Quotes

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Stars Quotes , Eye Quotes

A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Stars Quotes , Warrior Quotes

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Stars Quotes , Pain Quotes