What On Earth Quotes

#1. Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours? - Author: Frank Sonnenberg

#2. Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#3. In all my years on earth, I have seen time and time again that those who are the happiest are those who have the courage to follow their hearts - to believe what otherwise would be unbelievable; to seek the light; to find the truth. - Author: Michael McLean

#4. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away. - Author: Stephen King

#5. Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves. - Author: Vanna Bonta

#6. What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My ... my code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?"
"Comprehension. - Author: Albert Camus

#7. You English are like mad bulls ... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult ... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England. - Author: Wilhelm II

#8. And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand. - Author: Carl Jung

#9. What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. - Author: Lord Byron

#10. It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country? - Author: Charles Kuralt

#11. Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat - tell it to me. - Author: Pat Conroy

#12. Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth! - Author: Rosa Bonheur

#13. can't help but think once again what a foolish, loutish creature is man. Is there another on earth that kills for the pure joy of it? - Author: Jim Fergus

#14. Mankind is focused on earth; he is mostly interested in stupid things like wars or ideological absurdities. What he has to do is to concentrate on the universe, because the universe is a cosmic novel that he must read fully, that he must understand fully and that in the end he must rewrite it! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently. - Author: Jacque Fresco

#16. Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes. - Author: Opal Whiteley

#17. I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#18. We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to sustain, support and do what is best for the kingdom of God. - Author: Ezra Taft Benson

#19. You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?'
'No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.'
She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said.
'I am.'
'Oh, you poor thing,' she said, putting her arm around me, 'what on earth are you going to do? - Author: Sally Morgan

#20. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself. - Author: Francis Chan

#21. Q: What is dark chocolate?" "A: Heaven on Earth - Author: Pseudonymous Bosch

#22. You have what we in France call 'good time teeth,'" she said. "Why on earth would you want to change them?" "Um, because I can floss with the sash to my bathrobe? - Author: David Sedaris

#23. How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin. - Author: Anton Szandor LaVey

#24. 'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him. - Author: Henry B. Eyring

#25. There's terrible evil in the world."
It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. - Author: Richard Adams

#26. Sometimes, I wonder .....

Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all came into it?

If so, at what point do all our identities merge into a final whole?

Are we all nameless and blank at point Infinity? - Author: Tina Sequeira

#27. What on earth is the current morality, except in its literal sense - the morality that is always running away? - Author: G.K. Chesterton

#28. We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future. - Author: Jacque Fresco

#29. As Einstein said, God does not play dice with the universe; everything is interconnected and has a meaning. That meaning may remain hidden nearly all the time, but we always know we are close to our true mission on earth when what we are doing is touched with the energy of enthusiasm. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#30. Quote #2
I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. - Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#31. On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy? - Author: James P. Hogan

#32. It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people are constantly cutting you down - Author: Selena Gomez

#33. We felt we had our place in time. What person on the earth doesn't feel this way? - Author: Zadie Smith

#34. The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today? - Author: Philip Yancey

#35. Very few people on earth ever get to say: "I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing." If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say. - Author: Bill McKibben

#36. The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love? - Author: Richard Bach

#37. What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane. - Author: Lev Grossman

#38. (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) - Author: Anonymous

#39. Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future. - Author: Buzz Aldrin

#40. I want to experience the world. How can I be sure if my place on earth is supposed to be here or there, if I have never gone to there? I know all about here, am literally bored shitless with it. What if there, is better? - Author: Simon Williams

#41. If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race. - Author: Macaulay Culkin

#42. What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded.
'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be. - Author: Joseph Delaney

#43. All of what I told him was true - some people are just meant to break your heart, as if it were their sole mission here on earth to teach you not to fall in love with the wrong person.

Some people will break your heart over and over again, because some of us never learn - Author: Carmen Jenner

#44. I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do. - Author: Tim Tebow

#45. The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. - Author: Byron Katie

#46. Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. "Victorious and dead," some muttered, "is a poor sort of victory. - Author: M.L. Stedman

#47. Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for? - Author: Ray Davies

#48. The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him; they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity. Gazing at them-the stars-he thought of the jewelled guitar and its worldly glitter. - Author: Truman Capote

#49. I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power. - Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#50. We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. - Author: Matthew Arnold

#51. You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for. - Author: Elijah

#52. Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame. - Author: Alessandro Baricco

#53. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Author: Alice Walker

#54. The audacity of youth reckons upon what it fancies an unlimited time at its disposal; but a millionaire has unlimited means in his hand - which is better. One's time on earth is an uncertain quantity, but about the long reach of millions there is no doubt. - Author: Joseph Conrad

#55. I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important. - Author: Marian Wright Edelman

#56. Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it. - Author: Michael Bassey

#57. we've built a society that gets what it needs from the Earth and ecosystems but does far too little to maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend on, which are quite literally the life-support systems of the planet. - Author: Daniel D. Chiras

#58. I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids. - Author: Roseanne Barr

#59. We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring. - Author: David Eagleman

#60. Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward! - Author: Ayn Rand

#61. Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays! - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#62. What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken? - Author: Tennessee Williams

#63. If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight? - Author: Peter Greenaway

#64. To write? Because all this is ging to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left we nothing, we would be naked on earth. - Author: James Slater

#65. You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth. - Author: Victoria Osteen

#66. War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated. - Author: Ruth Benedict

#67. When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect. - Author: Jonathan Haidt

#68. Chinese people are indignant. Indignant! For decades, despite everything, they tried to make peace with the West. They are in fact the most peaceful big nation on Earth and what do they get in return? They get insults, provocations and intimidation. - Author: Andre Vltchek

#69. Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him. - Author: Mother Teresa

#70. People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand
what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for
Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind. - Author: Terry Tempest Williams

#71. Crying. Expelling grief from the body in the form of salt water. What's its purpose? How did it evolve, and why are humans the only creatures on Earth that do it? Nora wonders how many years it takes to dry up that messy urge. - Author: Isaac Marion

#72. So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that. - Author: Orson Scott Card

#73. what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we're here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? - Author: Bob Goff

#74. Everything on this earth belongs to God and therefore the more your dedication draws you closer to him, the more you will draw closer to what God owns - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#75. It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them something to grasp at in the ambiguous vein of life on Earth. - Author: Rhian J. Martin

#76. When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth. - Author: Melissa McCarthy

#77. We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence. - Author: Farrah Gray

#78. If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#79. So the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it. - Author: Dale Carnegie

#80. I strongly believe that we are not put on this Earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are - Author: William G. Nickels

#81. We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle. - Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#82. Abolishing centuries old traditions of the prosperous South, seemed to motivate their envious souls into annihilating what looked to the world, God's Heaven on Earth. - Author: Max Connelly

#83. There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity. - Author: Brigham Young

#84. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#85. What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth. - Author: Barack Obama

#86. I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.
They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. - Author: W.B.Yeats

#87. Finding your path means finding out what you were put here on this earth to do. What is your life's purpose? Why were you given this gift called life? And what is the gift you give back to life? - Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki

#88. I am not one of these people who wants everyone to live the way I live. What causes more trouble on our troubled earth than people like that? - Author: Roland Merullo

#89. To live fully, in these transitory lives on this fragile earth, in such a way that we somehow participate in the glory of God - that would be flourishing. And that is what we are meant to do. - Author: Andy Crouch

#90. That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others. - Author: Betty Ford

#91. Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you do not stand strong, people will pity you, and then you lose something adults call dignity. Never accept pity. No one on earth is better than anyone else. - Author: John J. Siefring

#92. I call hellfire a threat," Natasha said, " and 'love thy neighbor' a value. But I believe in hell, or something close to it. I think hell is what we get right here on earth when people trade their spiritual and political values in on spiritual and political threats. - Author: David James Duncan

#93. Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. - Author: Ellen DeGeneres

#94. If one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two. - Author: Katherine Mansfield

#95. Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him. - Author: Virginia Satir

#96. If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering what everyone left on Earth is feeling, you can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth. - Author: Alice Sebold

#97. Sweetie, if love could take away sadness, I'd be the happiest woman on earth. Sometimes the sadness is so deep, we have to sift through all the layers before we can find it and send it packing. That's what I'm trying to do in this place. Find my sadness. - Author: April Young Fritz

#98. If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? - Author: Francis Chan

#99. She wondered what on earth about liking someone could possibly have him wound up to such a pitch of anxiety. You're not gay, are you? - Author: Cassandra Clare

#100. What do you want, Zo?"
"What does anyone want, Abby?" he countered. "To be loved. Peace on earth. The winning lottery numbers. - Author: Lisa Mangum