Quotes About Celestial Bodies

#1. Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Like celestial bodies, transiting in their orbits, exerting their influences.

Scott Lynch

#3. Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other side?

Natsuo Kirino

#4. The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

Francis Bacon

#5. The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

Seth MacFarlane

#7. One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)

William Huggins

#8. We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.

Lewis Thomas

#10. I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

Lauren Beukes

#11. The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

Thomas Aquinas

#12. It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Perhaps ... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

Antoine Lavoisier

#14. Talk about celestial bodies.

Jackson Browne

#15. You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

Luanne Rice

#17. Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Coretta Scott King

#18. Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#19. It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

#20. Mostly I couldn't bear ... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

Gail Caldwell

#21. Be - don't try to become

Osho

#22. If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

Robert Duvall

#23. Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

George Phillips Bond

#24. When all else fails, fresh tactics!

John Travolta

#25. The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

Douglas Lewis

#26. What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof."-

Euclid

#27. The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

Mary Alice Monroe

#28. theory, in which gradual, cumulative exposure is the predicted mechanism of effect

Anonymous

#29. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly.

Robert A. Heinlein

#30. He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

Johann Kaspar Lavater