Carl Sagan Quotes

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

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• Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Trump
  • Made
  • Clear

• I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Get

• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • See
  • Only

• Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Leadership

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Reading
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Never

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • None

• Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • People
  • Career
  • Want

• The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Important
  • Game

• God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Free
  • Environment

• Military glory, - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Military
  • Rainbow

• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue...Shake one, and it awakens; then applyIts polished lips to your attentive ear,And it remembers its august abodes,And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ocean
  • August

• I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Health
  • Horse

• I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Sleep
  • Tired
  • Insomnia

• 'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Flying
  • Twilight

• I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Mad

• Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

  

  William Ames
  • May
  • Giving
  • Virtue

• Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Hell

• In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

  

  Carl Sagan