Eduard Suess Quotes

We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Eduard Suess

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• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Child

• There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Education
  • Need
  • Will

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Financial

• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Simple
  • Thoughts
  • Eye

• I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Important
  • Value

• I can never wink at the audience.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Never
  • Audience
  • I Can

• Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Future
  • Reality
  • inspirational

• Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Power
  • Hate
  • Trump

• It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Dark
  • Recognition
  • Ironic

• I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Capture

• Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Live
  • Done

• Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Doubt

• I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Growing up, we always played competitions like chipping, hitting.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Live
  • Divorce

• Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.

  

  Hafez Nazeri
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

  

  Peter Singer
  • May
  • Taken

• It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Men
  • Gold

• We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

  

  Eduard Suess
  • May
  • Forget
  • Planets