Top 30 Halley's Quotes
#1. Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.
Ross Perot
#2. As much as any of the old-timers, he regarded the Depression as not over and done with but merely absent for a while, like Halley's comet.
Wendell Berry
#3. You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.
Max Lucado
#4. Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
Clarence Darrow
#5. I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley's Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!
Grady Hendrix
#6. Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs ... many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#7. 'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together.
David Cross
#8. There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.
Jamie Ford
#9. I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return
Mark Twain
#10. [Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.
Albert Einstein
#11. Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
Rem Koolhaas
#12. I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
Landon Donovan
#13. Macon: "It's true. And if that doesn't work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to."
Halley: "The what?"
Macon: "The Jedi Mind Trick." He looked at me. "Didn't you ever see Star Wars?
Sarah Dessen
#15. We must never exercise our rights either wickedly or thoughtlessly; we can continue to preserve them in but one possible way, by making the proper use of them.
Edmund Morris
#16. It is possible for us to mount into a state in which a doubt or a fear shall be but as a bird of passage flitting across the soul, but never lingering there.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. But he's a missing person nobody's going to miss much.
Graham McNamee
#18. So you're thinking about babysitting. You love kids, you need the cash, and you've got a little free time.
Halley Bondy
#19. It's the other part I'm not so sure about. You got any advice for me on that, Lucan?"
"Sure." The vampire grunted, his smile filled with dark amusement. "Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.
Lara Adrian
#20. He died for us. He has forgiven us. He has given Himself to us in the person of His Spirit. If we are His, no power on earth or in heaven or in hell can prevent His bringing us to Himself in the eternal presence of God.
Henry H. Halley
#21. Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
Sappho
#22. I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down.
Stephen Jay Gould
#23. This sight ... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Edmond Halley
#24. In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun ... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.
Edmond Halley
#25. The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.
Rob Lowe
#26. 'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
Ridley Scott
#27. Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this ... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley
#28. Irish-looking,' Halley said, by which she meant a collection of indistinct features - pale skin, mousy hair, general air of ill-health - that combine to mysteriously powerful romantic effect.
Paul Murray
#29. Halley believed that a kiss was the beginning of a story, the story, good or bad, short or long, of an us, and once begun, you had to follow it through to the end.
Paul Murray
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