Awareness Quotes

"Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact."

- Noam Chomsky

"Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them."

- Ogden Nash

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Worrying isn’t a disease, it’s a symptom of caring."

- Hank Green

"I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- Neil Armstrong

"I find it curious that I never heard any astronaut say that he wanted to go to the moon so he would be able to look back and see the Earth. We all wanted to see what the moon looked like close up. Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the moon, but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone and infinite black space."

- Alan Bean

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

- Woody Allen

"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

- Marlene Dietrich

"Don’t think money does everything, or you are going to do everything for money."

- Voltaire

"Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options."

- Chris Rock

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."

- Douglas Adams

"The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet."

- Chris Hadfield

"Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there."

- Graham Hawkes

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."

- Sally Ride

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

- Carl Sagan

"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

- Kalpana Chawla

"If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization."

- Bill Nye

"One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us."

- Michio Kaku

"The view of Earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It’s a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is."

- Sally Ride

"When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried."

- Alan Shepard

"In the van, we can see the rocket in the distance, lit up and shining, an obelisk. In reality, of course, it’s a 4.5-megaton bomb loaded with explosive fuel, which is why everyone else is driving away from it."

- Chris Hadfield

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- Neil Armstrong

"You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not life or death. Once the game is over, you're already talking about next year and the draft. It's just entertainment."

- Bud Grant

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Santayana

"Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist."

- Muhammad Ali

"So many things become beautiful when you really look"

- Lauren Oliver

"Most people want beautiful things merely to impress others."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Interest on debts grows without rain."

"Memento Vivere"