Top 31 Leinster Quotes
#1. It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
Lady Gregory
#3. I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?
Murray Leinster
#4. The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them." But
Murray Leinster
#5. Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!
Murray Leinster
#6. Shirer estimates that between 1930 and 1933 a substantial section of German industry was financing the Nazi Party to the extent of many millions of marks a year.
Heinrick Fraenkel
#7. The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
Ken Livingstone
#8. The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.
Murray Leinster
#9. The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.
Murray Leinster
#10. Einstein said that all physicists were aware that the distinctions between past, present, and future were only what he called 'a stubbornly persistent illusion.' Not only did he believe in marvels and wonders, he also believed in the elasticity of time.
Deborah Harkness
#11. The whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death
Murray Leinster
#12. As Barry Commoner, US biologist and 1980 presidential candidate, formulated it in his Four Laws of Ecology:
Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere.
Nature knows best.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Kennedy Warne
#13. I felt a pull toward her even before I actually spotted her in her car and I'm glad I didn't resist.
A.R. Von
#14. The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.
Chuck Todd
#15. No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.
Murray Leinster
#16. Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.
Murray Leinster
#17. Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.
Murray Leinster
#18. It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet ...
Murray Leinster
#19. Nothing," snapped Howell, "that a man can imagine is impossible!
Murray Leinster
#20. Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "You (censored) - (deleted) - (omitted) - (unprintability)", he roared.
Murray Leinster
#21. He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.
Murray Leinster
#22. every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time
Murray Leinster
#23. There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.
Moby
#24. There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.
Murray Leinster
#25. We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.
Murray Leinster
#26. It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.
Murray Leinster
#27. It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!
Murray Leinster
#28. I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.
Manju Kapur
#29. All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
Julie Andrews
#30. In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.
Joel Beeke
#31. I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
F Scott Fitzgerald
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