Top 1200 Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

That's always the actor's worst nightmare: that what they're working on is going to be the last thing they'll ever work on. No lie. So I was very excited to land 'Girlfriends' Guide' immediately.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.

Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

It's the government's job to come in and help their citizens and guide their citizens to a brighter future and unfortunately in America that's not what's happening.

There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.

When we were touring with The Mighty Boosh, we went on a ghost tour of York. It was all about ghosts, and the tour guide was hilarious.

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

But Germany is a reflective power: even as it adapts, a belief in the importance of restraint, deliberation, and peaceful negotiation will continue to guide its interactions with the rest of the world.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

If my son enters politics, I will be able to guide him. He too would have learnt a lot from watching me, so he is less likely to make mistakes.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a safari guide.

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

What do you mean you live someplace where there aren’t any humans? (Danger) In a realm far away from here. (Alexion) Is that like in star Wars? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away? Want to tell me where your Tatooine is located? Is it anywhere in this universe? Near Toledo maybe? The one in Ohio or Spain? I’m not picky. Can I MapQuest it? (Danger)

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

So many people have opinions and try to guide you, and everyone has the best intentions, but it makes it harder to cut through the noise and be like 'wow, this is what I really want to do.'

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.