Carl Sagan Quotes

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Carl Sagan

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• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Society
  • Focus

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Possible
  • Hold
  • Grip

• There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Parents

• I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Thought

• I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Change
  • Win

• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Man
  • Chance

• It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Me
  • Never
  • Judge

• Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Health
  • Insurance

• Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • World
  • Paradise

• Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Good
  • Envy

• Chi va lontan da la sua patria, vedeCose, da quel che già credea, lontane;Che narrandole poi, non se gli crede,E stimato bugiardo ne rimane.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  

  Brad Blanton
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Bullshit

• When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Good
  • Men
  • Father

• Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely laser broom.

  

  Bradley Chicho
  • Light
  • Friend
  • Eyes

• Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • Religion
  • Christianity
  • Depends

• And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • You
  • Doing
  • Ears

• Nobody listens to mathematicians.

  

  Carl Sagan