Cordwainer Smith Quotes

#1. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon

#2. There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.

Cordwainer Smith

#3. That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Alain Prost

#4. The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

Cordwainer Smith

#5. ... but remember that I shall love your sorrow...

Cordwainer Smith

#6. She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is - a cat!"
But that was not how his mind saw her - quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.
Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?

Cordwainer Smith

#7. One must never disregard a message from the universe.

Laurie R. King

#8. I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

Portia De Rossi

#9. Needs can never be replaced; wants get replaced.

Umair Naeem

#10. All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.

M. Russell Ballard

#11. This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.

Dean Koontz

#12. Joan commented, upon sentence, My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.

Cordwainer Smith

#13. And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

Cordwainer Smith

#14. Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!

David Belle

#15. The greatest adventure of our lives is the absence of adventure.

Milan Kundera

#16. Until 1943, when Stalingrad and bombing began to change everything, most German civilians save those who lost loved ones found the conflict a numbing presence rather than a trauma.

Max Hastings

#17. You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. Go home, Gideon. Please."
"I am home." He caught me from behind and buried his face in mu soaked hair. "I'm with you.

Sylvia Day

#19. There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

John Lennon

#20. Be assured that thy God will be thy counsellor and friend; he shall guide thee; he will direct all thy ways. In his written Word thou hast this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is his counsel to thee. Happy are we to have God's Word always to guide us!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire ...

Cordwainer Smith

#22. Crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.

Cordwainer Smith

#23. Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

George Will