Gordon R Dickson Quotes

#1. Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

Robert Lanza

#2. By the twelfth day of his fast, Raju himself has become a tourist attraction. Before an enormous crowd and an American television crew, the starving man is helped down to the drought-stricken river to pray:

R.K. Narayan

#3. Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

Gordon R. Dickson

#4. Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage.

Gordon R. Dickson

#5. The trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.

Gordon R. Dickson

#6. Science will win because it works.

Stephen Hawking

#7. A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.

Zygmunt Bauman

#8. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

#9. Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Gordon R. Dickson

#10. A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

Gordon R. Dickson

#11. Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

Gordon R. Dickson

#12. I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it.

Gordon R. Dickson

#13. I, wanderer, stand awaiting the signal.

Gordon R. Dickson

#14. The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.

William R. Ferris

#15. Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Gordon R. Dickson

#16. Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

Gordon R. Dickson

#18. For sooner or later, no matter what fantastic long-range weapons you mounted, the ground itself had to be taken - and for that there had never been anything but the man in the ranks.

Gordon R. Dickson

#19. John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility.

Gordon R. Dickson

#20. And as far as Piscary is concerned, he can burn in hell - if his soul hadn't already evaporated.

Kim Harrison

#21. More blood's been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.

Gordon R. Dickson

#22. Live today as if it was ur last and don't ever say it is impossible cos nothing great was achieved with ease

Gordon R. Dickson

#23. We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Daniel Webster

#24. We do not speak of clowns in this office. You know that.

Cecilia London

#25. And even though she would never tell him, she loved the way he moved, with total confidence, as though nothing in the world could harm him. It made her less fearful when she was around him. As if boldness and bravery did not always end in defeat. But

Stephanie Garber

#26. We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.

William H. Macy

#27. Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.

Gordon R. Dickson

#28. As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always.

Thomas S. Monson

#29. the faithholder is his faith. He and it make, not two, but a single thing. Since he and it are one, there's no way to take it from him. That makes him a very powerful opponent. In fact, it makes him an unconquerable opponent; since even death can't touch him in his most important part.

Gordon R. Dickson

#30. We're painted savages, nothing more, in spite of what we like to think of as some thousands of years of civilization. Only our present paint's called clothing and our caves called buildings

Gordon R. Dickson

#31. Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did.

Charles Dickens