Best 176 quotes in «gravity quotes» category

When I’m with you, The gravity of our moments, The weight of our smiles Makes time nearly stop.

When I opened my eyes, I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with outstretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. But I did not fall. From nape to heel I discovered myself bound to earth. I felt a sort of appeasement in surrendering to it my weight. Gravitation had become as sovereign as love. The earth, I felt, was supporting my back, sustaining me, lifting me up, transporting me through the immense void of night.

Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would be no matter. But it does not matter - Because what is matter, If there is no light?

You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!

You bend the laws of the universe when you fly," I say. "It's impressive. Defying gravity? Watching sunrises and sunsets from places Mother Nature didn't intend for you to watch them from? You really are superheroes, if you think about it.

You'll have to give me a minute here. Gravity's a real bitch this morning. Ian to Kori

As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

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

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter comes from.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

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

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

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

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

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

I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.

I don't do ups, ups defy gravity. Gravity is a law. I obey the law

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

‎Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters.

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.