Psychohistory Quotes

#1. Mr. Advocate, the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen with the ears of psychohistory, and you will hear the creaking.

Isaac Asimov

#2. Psychohistory was the quintessence of sociology; it was the science of human behavior reduced to mathematical equations. The individual human being is unpredictable, but the reactions of human mobs, Seldon found, could be treated statistically.

Isaac Asimov

#3. Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

Lloyd DeMause

#4. You are as powerful as your thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Character is revealed through action.

Aristotle.

#6. Pan is right," he thought. "Death can ruin a man's life even though he go on breathing.

Tom Robbins

#7. We've already eaten,' Fox said. 'Nice, was

Ian Rankin

#8. We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

Stefan Molyneux

#9. There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Lee Hammond

#10. Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Christopher Eccleston

#11. [I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Jennifer Egan

#12. I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

Julia Sawalha

#13. Jack hesitated still, and Hazel wanted to say something comforting, give him some bright plastic flowers of words, but Jack would see them for what they were. Jack knew how to see things.

Anne Ursu

#14. Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#15. Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

Steven Hall

#16. Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends."
"You're a twisted little man."
"Come on, Stretch, share with the class."
"No!" I laughed.
"Prude."
"Perv."
"Schoolmarm."
"Some other word that essentially means perv.

Molly Harper

#17. There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

Countee Cullen

#18. The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

Jack Kevorkian

#19. Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.

Isaac Asimov

#20. Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

Rob Glaser