Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

Carolyn Porco

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Safety

• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Know
  • Training

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Theatre

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

  

  Rain
  • People
  • Mother
  • Success

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Financial
  • Crisis
  • Banks

• The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Safety

• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Me
  • Pen
  • Hen

• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Looking
  • Perfection

• One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Together
  • End
  • Puzzle

• When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.

  

  David Mixner
  • Country
  • Morning
  • Wonder

• I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Heart

• You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • Long
  • Dream

• I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

  

  Dominique Wilkins
  • Player

• Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Language

• We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Capable