Need an original paper?
Buy Essay Now
Research Database of Quotes
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Keywords
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
fixed star
«I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space»
Author: Gerald Kersh
| Keywords:
Dog Star, fired, fixed star, froze, Hesperus, hung, scattered, spin, The Lonely, The Shining
«The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.»
Author: Otto Weininger
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
fixed star, orient, oriented, orients, signify, The Angel
«The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
changeless, domination, fixed, fixed star, maneuver, maneuvers, methods, polar, polar star, Russia, tactic, tactics, The Domination
«Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.»
«Be like the Star which never wavers from the Crescent but is fixed in steady faith.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
crescent, crescents, fixed star, The Star, wavers
«But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
constant, firmament, fix, fixed star, Northern, resting
«These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
earthly, fixed star, godfather, godfathers, The Godfather