Top 983 Defying Gravity Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way.

Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about where the best experiences are happening." Everyone wants to see how someone else managed, defying odds.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does not bring him one ounce of sovereignty. God rules even when men imagine they are defying Him.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

Gravity wins over all other known forces.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

I like to think I've changed the centre of gravity on lots of national debates.

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.