Meteors Quotes - Page 2

• Un hombre pasa por muchos cambios en 2000 metros. Algunos no son muy bonitos. Algunos te hacen odiarte a ti mismo. Algunos te hacen preguntarte si has estado remando sólo tres o cuatro días. Para evitar ese destino, nos preparamos para todas las posibilidades. Si un meteorito aterrizara a 3 metros de nuestra popa, no pestañearíamos. [Estaríamos atentos, pero impasibles, al mundo exterior. Cada gramo de energía se canalizaría hacia el agua, y no se desperdiciaría mirando a nuestro alrededor, preocupándonos por los rivales, preguntándonos cosas que no tenían que ver con nuestro objetivo principal: ser los primeros en cruzar la línea de meta.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Odio, Destino, Hombres

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• Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

  Alfred Austin

  Dream, Stars, Fall

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• You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Life, Long, Shining

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions or billions of people, I feel less anxious about it because I actually understand what the threats are. There's nothing like researching something exhaustively to make it less terrifying.

  Annalee Newitz

  Volcanoes, People, Suffering

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stars, May, Fixed

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

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• The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.

  Michael Palin

  Land, Volunteer, Three

  "Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days". Documentary, 1989.

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• La empatía no es sólo algo que nos sucede, una lluvia de sinapsis que se disparan por todo el cerebro, sino también una elección que hacemos: prestar atención, extendernos.

  Leslie Jamison

  Choices, Empathy, Brain

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.23, Granta Books

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• THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

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• So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth.

  Christopher Martenson

  Congratulations, Earth, Contribution

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• Los libros son depósitos fieles, que pueden ser descuidados u olvidados por un tiempo; pero cuando se abren de nuevo, volverán a impartir su instrucción: la memoria, una vez interrumpida, no se recupera. La erudición escrita es una luminaria fija, que, después de que la nube que la había ocultado ha desaparecido, vuelve a brillar en su propia estación. La tradición no es más que un meteoro que, si cae una vez, no puede volver a encenderse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Book, Fall

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons".

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• The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

  Thomas Campbell

  Peace, Stars, Night

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.151

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• we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Stars, Moving

  Salman Rushdie (1995). "El último suspiro del moro"

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• When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.

  Kenneth Lacovara

  Dinosaurs, Eras, Boundaries

  "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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• From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself - one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

  Tycho Brahe

  Estrellas, Ciencia, Luna

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• La enseña imperial, que en lo alto avanzaba
  brillaba como un meteoro, al viento.

  John Milton

  Wind, Streaming, Flag Day

  John Milton, John Rice (1766). "El paraíso perdido ... Con notas de varios autores, por John Rice", p.29

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• La estrella [supernova de Tycho] fue al principio como Venus y Júpiter, dando efectos agradables; pero como luego se volvió como Marte, vendrá después un período de guerras, sediciones, cautiverio y muerte de príncipes, y destrucción de ciudades, junto con sequedad y meteoros ardientes en el aire, pestilencia y serpientes venenosas. Por último, la estrella se volvió como Saturno, y finalmente vendrá un tiempo de necesidad, muerte, encarcelamiento y toda clase de cosas tristes.

  Tycho Brahe

  Estrellas, Guerra, Ciencia

  "Libro de datos de astronomía de Patrick Moore". p. 336, 2011.

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• El mundo que conocemos actualmente no está en condiciones de hacerse cargo del más lúgubre meteorito... Si tenemos el valor y la paciencia, la energía y la habilidad, para llevarnos de viaje a otros planetas, utilicemos algunos de ellos para poner orden y civilizar esta Tierra. Un mundo cada vez, por favor.

  J. B. Priestley

  Science, Civilization, Skills

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• Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Crazy, Orbit

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• The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.

  Washington Irving

  Otoño, Escritura, Luz

  Washington Irving (1991). “Bracebridge Hall ; Tales of a Traveller ; The Alhambra”, p.467, Library of America

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• AristotleLa opinión de los griegos... de que los cometas no eran más que vapores sublunares o meteoros aéreos... prevaleció tanto entre los griegos, que esta parte sublime de la astronomía fue totalmente descuidada; ya que nadie podía pensar que valiera la pena observar y dar cuenta de las errantes e inciertas trayectorias de los vapores que flotan en el éter.

  Edmond Halley

  Thinking, Giving, Greek

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• Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Loneliness, Lying

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.162, Vintage

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• A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Men, Fading

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• I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption.  But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation.  It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.

  Pat Robertson

  Hate, Pride, Gay

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1998. Two months after Robertson's warning, Hurricane Bonnie detoured around Orlando but slammed into Robertson's own headquarters city, Virginia Beach, Va.

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• Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

  Robert Burns

  Dream, Spring, Ambition

  Robert Burns (1901). “The Poetry of Robert Burns: Posthumous pieces”

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