Alan Stern Quotes

To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.

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• Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Safety
  • Without

• I'm moving forward to do the best.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Moving
  • Best
  • Moving Forward

• This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Party
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Feminist

• In the real world, children love me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Real
  • Trying

• You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a job four years later. If you're just doing this because it is going to lead to a 'good job,' you're better off doing something you're genuinely interested in.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Hand
  • Trump
  • Syria

• Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children

• The Function of Reason (1929), Beacon Books, 1958, p. 16

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• I had to shake the spot cause the game got crowded I'm devoted and quote it, I'm rowdy and bout it A No Limit Soldier, and happy to shout it.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Happy
  • Game
  • Soldier

• I should therefore prefer to restrict my guidelines to the following:

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Intelligent

• What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Lies

• My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Work
  • Business
  • Father

• I think it's really important as we position Hawaii as the policy leader in renewable energy.

  

  David Ige
  • Important
  • Energy

• You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • World
  • Needs
  • Should

• The very rich, having fundamentally missed the point of urban living, have long been frustrated by the fact that it’s impossible to squeeze the amenities of a country mansion—car showroom, swimming pool, cinema, servants quarters etc.—into the floor space of your average London terrace. Those without access to trans-dimensional engineering, a key Time Lord discovery, have had to resort to extending their houses into the ground. Thus proving that all that stands between your average rich person and a career in Bond villainy is access to an extinct volcano.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Engineering
  • Frustrated
  • Mansion

• Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Things
  • Cup

• We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Presence

• To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.

  

  Alan Stern