Carl Sagan Quotes

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

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• As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Start
  • Ready
  • Busy

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Know
  • Never
  • Navy

• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Masterpiece

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Publish

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Change
  • Same

• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
  • End
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
  • Complete

• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Conflict
  • Inequality

• The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Single

• I think we're going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will look back and ask, 'How did it take so long for you to figure this out?'

  

  Phil Lord
  • People
  • Long
  • Women

• Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Long
  • Eye
  • Cry

• Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credetServitutem. Nunquam libertas gratior extatQuam sub rege pio.

  

  Prince

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space