Stuart Chase Quotes

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Stuart Chase

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• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Seems
  • Wash

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Content

• It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Earth
  • Wisdom
  • Used

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Effort

• I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Morning

• When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Great
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Think
  • Language
  • Chinese

• Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • God
  • Believe
  • Earth

• To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining … to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Earth

• O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

  

  Vanity
  • Earth

• Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Earth
  • Kitchen
  • Breakfast

• People don't call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don't know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Dark

• 'When did you become a shivering old woman,' Okonkwo asked himself, 'you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.'

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Men
  • War
  • Fall

• These Peerless thump their chests in salute to me. The monsters. They go with the wind, chasing power. But they don't realize power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust. And trust is what has kept me alive. Trust in my friends, and their trust in me.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Trust

• I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Perfect

• Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

  

  Stuart Chase
  • Earth
  • Common