Homer Hickam Quotes

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Homer Hickam

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• Needs
• Imagine
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• The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Always
  • Capacity
  • Curious

• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

  

  Verite
  • Life
  • Why
  • Home

• Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Solution
  • Capacity
  • Middle

• Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • True
  • Man
  • Amazing

• It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Community
  • Needs

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Change
  • Situation
  • Able

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Future
  • Capacity

• Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Needs
  • Places
  • MGM

• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Long
  • Forever

• A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Society
  • Wonder
  • Appreciation

• …English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Wonder

• Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,When you, you wonder why, love none.We love, Fool, for the good we do,Not that which unto us is done!

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Good
  • Done
  • Why

• I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;You do not guess the adventure I have had! . . .Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet . . .My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Dark

• Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

  

  Doug Henning
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wonder

• I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Mondays
  • Rainy days

• I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Night
  • Giving
  • Hands

• I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Wonder
  • Needs
  • Imagine