Quotes About Jubal

#1. Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Is this Paradise?'
'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell's division commander,

Jeff Shaara

#4. Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. When, after a week, Jubal had had no other message, he sent a stat care of Ben's office: "What
the hell are you doing?" Ben's answer came back, somewhat delayed: "Studying Martian and the rules for
hopscotch -- fraternally yours -- Ben.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Don't anybody mention ice skating; Grandmaw is too old and frail and it wouldn't be polite. Hilda, you suggest dominoes and we'll all chime in - Grandmaw likes dominoes. We'll go skating some other time. Okay, kids?" Jubal

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition

Anne McCaffrey

#10. Ellie?" he said. Just the reflection of his ice-blue irises seared through me. "Do you know what's coming?" "Goodbye?" I said, only half-joking. Jubal smiled, concentrating again on the road. "Maybe not.

Jamie McGuire

#11. Jubal had long ago even foresworn pets, because he outlived them, or (worse yet) it was now possible that a pet would outlive him, be orphaned.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.

James I. Robertson Jr.

#13. Ben m'boy," Jubal said gently, "as a reporter you are hard-working and sometimes readable.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

T.D. Jakes

#16. The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

Jubal Early

#17. Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

Jubal

#18. I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

Jubal Early

#19. The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

John Prendergast

#20. Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

Shirley Chisholm

#21. You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Jubal Early

#22. Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#23. A confidence man knows he's lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says - and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

Jubal

#24. I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, 'We must broaden the base of our party'- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents

Ronald Reagan

#25. Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

Jubal

#26. As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

Jubal Early

#27. I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

Christopher Walken

#28. As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have ...

Robert A. Heinlein