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Tag Name "Meteors" (17)

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Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.
Robinson Jeffers
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.
Edmond Halley
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Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.
Frank Dempster Sherman
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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
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[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt to be more interested in phenomena like meteors than in the slow growth of a mighty tree. Wait ten years, and the politicians will one day wake up and say, 'Look who's here!
Margaret Case Harriman
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.
Voltaire
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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
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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Ernestine Rose
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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Thoughts are like stars in the firmament some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.
Margaret Cavendish
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.
Scott Adams
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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