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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• Thinker
• Sublime
• Magnificent
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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

• 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

• 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

• No one can guarantee success of a film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Success
  • Film
  • Guarantee

• It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Real
  • Small
  • Voice

• How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

  

  Jack McDevitt

• I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • People
  • Moon
  • Achievement

• I was supporting Aly [Raisman]. I will always will support them and respect them. I don't want anyone to take it as jealous or I wanted attention.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Respect
  • Support
  • Attention

• When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Star
  • Woman
  • Ship

• A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Up
  • Today
  • Action

• We're looking at available sources, all sources, in the area of additional energy.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Energy
  • Source
  • Available

• 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