Carl Sagan Voyager Quotes

#1. What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. - Author: George Pierce Baker

#2. Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves - Author: Oprah Winfrey

#3. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has taken Voyager to travel from Earth to Jupiter. - Author: Carl Sagan

#4. I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing. - Author: Ray Charles

#5. To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you ... people who are beautiful inside and out ... those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec] - Author: Daniele Lanzarotta

#6. We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely assured, and because the Father hears our prayers because they come to Him through the lips of His dear Son. - Author: Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#7. To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. - Author: Bruce Feirstein

#8. When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented. - Author: Fausto Cercignani

#9. Am I not merciful? - Author: Amie Kaufman

#10. The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time. - Author: Homer

#11. Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius - he wants its bones and flesh. - Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#12. I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me. - Author: Daria Werbowy

#13. Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us. - Author: Carl Sagan

#14. If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, 'God, I really wish I was there with you right now', I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready. - Author: Josh Groban

#15. Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society. - Author: Ted Agon

#16. There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go? - Author: Joe L. Wheeler