Billingsgate Sf Quotes

#1. Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

Harvey MacKay

#2. Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

Ian Anderson

#3. It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Rick Warren

#4. Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

Alexander Hamilton

#5. If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

John Fowles

#6. What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Edgar Friedenberg

#7. If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Even as he watched, a star moved above the limb of the planet, laser weapons winked their ruby morse

Dan Simmons

#9. The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

John Ruskin

#10. The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.

Shane McAnally

#11. In my thinking, the nature of things, the nature of God if you will, must be common to all.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#12. The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. You're the husband?" the doctor asked with a nod to Roarke.
"Yes. How is she?"
"Spitting mad - I think she has some very ominous plans for you. And if you happen to be Peabody, you're in on them."
"She's okay." Peabody let out a gush of air. "That's great.

J.D. Robb

#14. The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

Hans Vestberg

#15. Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Greg Egan