Babel 17 Quotes

#1. The problem with using our desires as the litmus test for holiness is that sin feels more normal than righteousness.

Jen Wilkin

#2. The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

Robert Fogel

#3. Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

Samuel R. Delany

#4. Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

David R. Brower

#6. I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#7. Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Erin McCarthy

#8. It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell.

Charlaine Harris

#9. As for time, all men have it in abundance.

George S. Clason

#10. Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!

Heather Mitts

#11. Her mouth tasted of smoke and toothpaste and something feety that made my blood flare

John Banville