Misattributed To Carl Sagan Quotes

#1. Of course, for a seaman, next to being actually at sea, the greatest enjoyment comes from preparing the boat for a voyage.

Robin Knox-Johnston

#2. Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

Emmett F. Fields

#3. I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

Jim Shepard

#4. [There is less precision in the Chinese than I have thought it well to introduce into my translation, and the commentaries on the passage are by no means explicit. But, having regard to the context, we can hardly doubt that Sun Tzu is holding up I Chih and Lu Ya as illustrious

Sun Tzu

#5. When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it
and not get caught.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Stone Gossard

#7. Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

Rick Warren

#8. She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.

Simon Van Booy

#9. Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

James Payn

#10. No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you. - Dimitri

Richelle Mead

#11. How can this be your car? (Nick)
Well, I wrote a really big check that didn't bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened ... the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. In the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

Alan Weisman

#13. After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.

Dean Koontz