Deceleration Quotes

#1. But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.

Peter Watts

#2. This was the fundamental problem with rockets - and no one had ever discovered any alternative for deep-space propulsion. It was just as difficult to lose speed as to acquire it, and carrying the necessary propellant for deceleration did not merely double the difficulty of a mission; it squared it.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. Witches were a bit like cats. They didn't much like one another's company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

Richard Dawkins

#5. I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.

Pau Gasol

#6. This government has always said increasing pay is something for something.

Estelle Morris

#7. Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.

Tony Evans

#9. I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

Melissa Sagemiller

#10. I love both my parents dearly.

Kevin Eubanks

#11. You're it. The one. The start. The finish. You are how my story ends.

Belle Aurora

#12. You know when you bring your voice to different voiceover things like video games and cartoons, and I do tons of stuff like that in voiceovers and whatnot, it's very fun and freeing.

Benito Martinez

#13. Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Paul Valery

#14. I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.

Robert Harris

#15. Life is like an airport. It's where every hello and goodbye take place.

Mia Haryono

#16. How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Maria Montessori

#17. In a major matter no details are small.

Jean Francois Paul De Gondi