Velocity Escape Quotes

#1. Listen to me," he said, and to her dismay he stepped closer. "When I first met you," he said, "I had no idea you were one of us. How could I? But I knew that you were different than that phony friend of yours. Not just another pretty girl, but somebody special.

L.J.Smith

#2. The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.

Tucker Carlson

#3. Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse - constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor. However

Sam Harris

#4. Preparedness is the key to success and victory.

Douglas MacArthur

#5. Be honest about your joy.

Rob Bell

#6. Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

Etgar Keret

#7. By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

Ralph Ellison

#8. Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

Philip K. Dick

#9. From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Jose Saramago

#10. A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.

Rahul Gandhi

#11. They lived and laughed and they saw that it was good.

David Arnold

#12. Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

Leonard Cohen

#13. Century after century, we have prosecuted our insane conflicts from atop their backs, resting on their sturdy necks when we grew weary, eating their flesh when we were starving, disemboweling them and crawling inside their bodies when we were freezing.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#14. I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.

Elena Ferrante

#15. I was leaving this small Arizona town in a few weeks, and I felt less like someone preparing to climb a career ladder than a buzzing electron about to achieve escape velocity, flinging out into a strange and sparkling universe.

Paul Kalanithi

#16. Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

Junot Diaz

#17. The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Robert Barr

#18. Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.

Virginia Postrel

#19. In order to achieve escape velocity, we must learn to keep our own counsel, to move silently among doubters, to voice our plans only among our allies, and to name our allies accurately.

Julia Cameron

#20. He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

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