If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have. – Joyce Meyer
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. – Johan Huizinga
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. – James Weldon Johnson
I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land. – John Tyler
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955. – James Gleick
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. – Joseph Conrad
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. – Jules Verne
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers’ main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. – John Updike
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted. – Jane D. Hull
The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth’s roots carry water like a human’s veins carry blood. – Jeff Hardy
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It’s biological. – Janine di Giovanni
There’s something about the water – that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You’re on Earth but not quite. – John C. Reilly
Human civilization has been changing the Earth’s environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. – Jamais Cascio
Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth’s dwindling resources. It is our responsibility. – Issey Miyake
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. – Isaac Newton
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham
I’m very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We’ve got to be careful and make sure we don’t foul our own nest. – John Lithgow
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. – Giovanni Boccaccio
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. – Jimmy Carter
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps… That’s just another man’s fantasy. – John Lydon
Step one of Street View was to get the pictures in place – in a few short years, we’ve gotten used to the idea that nearly any place on earth can now be visited as a set of images on Google. – John Battelle
Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it’s a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth. – Izabella Scorupco
If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed. – Isaac Newton
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. – Irena Sendler
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn’t have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does – his is in plain sight. – John Hodgman