#heavens

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off." ↗

— Stephen King

#answered #destroyed #down #family #farm

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#harvard #heavens #i #real #see

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#anything #assurance #earth #fullness #god

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson. ↗

— Clare Short

#feeds #got #heavens #i #ireland

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#got #heavens #keep #mouth #open

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#budget #compare #explore #fund #heavens

I like to consider myself a star - a star, that when you look in the sky, it's always there. And on a clear night... a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all. ↗

— James Belushi

#both #clear #comes #consider #constant

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. ↗

— George Farquhar

#expressions #grant #heavens #i #me

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? ↗

— Jeb Bush

#beauty #heavens #into #looked #lost