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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6927b83 | Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 354e81c | Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part . . . and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a0da4f5 | Because revolution--armed uprising--requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die--or he's just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressive ones and make them the sheep dogs, the sheep will never give you trouble. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 630ef91 | An apostate scientist, a kidnapped scientist, a dull peasant, a two-headed monster, an apple-brained moron -- five knives, counting Joe-Jim as one; five brains, counting Joe-Jim as two and Bobo as none -- five brains and five knives to overthrow an entire culture. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5a9ebfa | Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah! | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ad4b82d | Just a man, with a face-shaped face, | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a1053ce | But it's a hell of a note when you can't even kill a dragon and feel lighthearted afterwards. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 193f2c3 | It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 425cd47 | Oh, "Tanstaafl." Means "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." And isn't,' I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, 'or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless." | tanstaafl | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 59ad6c7 | There wasn't any way to be safe; just being alive was deadly dangerous...fatal, in the end. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| aeecf5b | But in writing your constitution let me invite attention the wonderful virtues of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be studded with things the government is forever forbidden to do. No conscript armies . . . no interference however slight with freedom of press, or speech, or travel, or assembly, or of religion, or of instruction, or communication, or occupation. . . no involuntary taxation. Comrades, if you were to sp.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1138429 | Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 3baabb3 | A magician is a rule-of-thumb engineer. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d923035 | Yes, yes, I know they make better pilots than men do; their reactions are faster, and they can tolerate more gee. They can get in faster, get out faster, and thereby improve everybody's chances, yours as well as theirs. But that still doesn't make it fun to be slammed against your spine at ten times your proper weight. But | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ac03299 | Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability against all competition...The Universe will let us know-later-whether Man has any right to expand through it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5ac1a8e | Library science was the foundation of all sciences. | literacy reading | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 4123b13 | Do you speak English?" "Certainly. And I understand American." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8c6c420 | Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain't! See? --Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e9c2104 | there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason on insanity." These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminished mental capacity to even think about rape; to carry one out would be the strongest possible proof of insanity - but among Loonies such mental disorders would not gain a rapist any sympathy. loonies do not psychoanalyze a rapist; they kil.. | punishment rape | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| a9c50bc | A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain. | committees group-think | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 60da2ab | Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human--'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average of personal values, all of which must be quantitatively different or trade would be impossible. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e25cd7f | Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility--we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life--and lose it, if need be--to save the life of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 64861e6 | Young man, can you restore my eyesight?" "Sir? Why, no, sir!" "You would find it much easier than to instill moral virtue--social responsibility--into a person who doesn't have it, doesn't want it, and resents having the burden thrust on him." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f551f7f | My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b3f7075 | Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents--a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect? | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6edc7a1 | There's precious little choice." "There's always a choice! This one is a choice between 'bad' and 'worse--'which is a difference much more poignant than that between 'good' and 'better." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 525c656 | Comedian Jerry Seinfeld advised aspiring comedian Brad Isaac that, because daily writing was the key to writing better jokes, Isaac should buy a calendar with a box for every day of the year, and every day, after writing, cross off the day with a big red X. "After a few days you'll have a chain," Seinfeld explained. "You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the ch.. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 2ea35c6 | The funniest part of that joke is, 'say what you will about Hitler'. | Jerry Seinfeld | ||
| 8bc7291 | n 'kbr khTw@ Hqan lyst lty khTh "nyl 'rmstrwnj" `l~ sTH lqmr wlkn 'kbr khTw@ tmt Hynm bd' lns ydrkwn `Zm@ dhlk ltnw` 'w ltbyn ldhy mnHhm llh yh. n`m, rbm kn hdh ltnw` 'w ltbyn 'kbr khTw@ khTh lnsn `l~ l'rD!" | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 28bf85f | How to Make People Want to Start a Conversation with You Singles proficient at meeting potential sweethearts without the benefit of introduction (in the vernacular, making a "pickup"), have developed a deliciously devious technique that works equally well for social or corporate networking purposes. The technique requires no exceptional skill on your part, only the courage to sport a simple visual prop called a "Whatzit." What's a Whatzit? .. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| c5c3690 | If I am going to be drowned-- if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? Was I brought here merely to have my nose dragged away as I was about to nibble the sacred cheese of life? It is preposterous. If this old ninny-woman, Fate, cannot do better than this, she should be deprived of the management of men's .. | Stephen Crane | ||
| bbf31cd | Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 4e99cec | It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 204f911 | A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the wounded man's hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence - the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a bird's wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. His comrades .. | wound wounded woundedness | Stephen Crane | |
| 8cf92ab | You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. --STEPHEN CRANE, "The Colors" | Harold G. Moore | ||
| bbda67b | A man feared that he might find an assassin; | crane philosophy victim wisdom wise | Stephen Crane | |
| 5662be0 | Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night. | Stephen Crane | ||
| e33b3b3 | It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 6f1c72f | Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter - bitter," he answered; "But I like it | Stephen Crane | ||
| 3c20282 | They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 33aaf25 | You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 587c15b | Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling. | religion | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 94523a7 | I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0b58b92 | Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you." | Ernest Hemingway |