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“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
Terry Pratchett
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
Terry Pratchett
“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
Heraclitus
“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.”
Steve Jobs
“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.”
Martin Luther King
“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
Thomas Mann
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.”
Francis Xavier
“ Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.”
Robert Anson Heinlein
“ Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
Robert Anson Heinlein
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”
Albert Einstein
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Albert Einstein
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
Albert Einstein
“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
Albert Einstein
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
Plato
“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
Woody Allen
“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”
Marie Curie
“Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.”
Robert Burns
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
Che Guevara
“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”
Fidel Castro
“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
Paulo Coelho
“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”
Paulo Coelho
