Top 100 Sheldon's Quotes
#1. Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.
Cassandra Clare
#2. I would never betray you," she responded automatically, then bit her lip.
He raised one eyebrow.
"Okay, other that boinking your enemy, I would never betray you," she qualified.
He huffed a laugh, "Boinking?"
"I believe that's one of Sheldon's terms.
Dianne Duvall
#3. Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
Sidney Sheldon
#5. Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#6. In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
Sidney Sheldon
#8. How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#9. To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
Sidney Sheldon
#10. For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#11. We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#12. I don't cry when I lose. There's always a new hand coming up.
Sheldon Adelson
#13. Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.
Sheldon Lee Compton
#14. God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!
Joss Sheldon
#16. It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE ...
Sidney Sheldon
#17. It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
Sidney Sheldon
#18. If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.
Sheldon Vanauken
#19. Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.
Sheldon Vanauken
#20. The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#21. I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?
Sidney Sheldon
#23. What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#24. People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#25. I am a man of science, not someone's snuggle-bunny!
Chuck Lorre
#26. A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
Sidney Sheldon
#27. You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.
Sidney Sheldon
#28. As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.
Sheldon Harnick
#29. When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#30. If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon
#31. The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.
Sheldon Richman
#32. So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#34. My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#35. I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#36. I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.
Dyan Sheldon
#37. Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. (23)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#38. It's unfair that I've been treated unfair, but it doesn't stop me.
Sheldon Adelson
#39. Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#40. That's the rankest psychologism, and was conclusively revealed as hogwash by Gottlob Frege in the 1890s!
Sheldon Cooper
#41. I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.
Simon Cowell
#42. There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#43. There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first.
Sheldon Adelson
#45. I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.
Sheldon Candis
#46. You can't get there from here, and besides there's no place else to go.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#47. People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money.
Sheldon Richman
#48. There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Sidney Sheldon
#49. Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free? No, there's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me.
Charles M. Sheldon
#50. A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.
Sheldon Vanauken
#51. I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
Sidney Sheldon
#52. Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
Sidney Sheldon
#53. The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.
Sidney Sheldon
#54. From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#55. But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#57. Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
Hank Johnson
#58. He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'
Sheldon Adelson
#59. Sheldon Van Auken wrote,"The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness." Guess what he said is the best argument against it? "When Christians are sombre, joyless, self-righteous, smug, narrow, repressive - Christianity dies a thousand deaths.
John Ortberg
#60. But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
Sidney Sheldon
#61. People like Justin Frankel and Daniel Sheldon linger on the fringe until they dream up something that has great commercial potential. Then some big company swoops in and buys them, or they give birth to the big company themselves.
Michael Lewis
#62. I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
Sheldon Adelson
#63. When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
Sidney Sheldon
#64. It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.
Sheldon Richman
#65. Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight
Sidney Sheldon
#66. The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#68. Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.
Sidney Sheldon
#69. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#70. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
Sidney Sheldon
#71. It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.
Ashwin Sanghi
#72. I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#73. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.
Joss Sheldon
#74. I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
Sidney Sheldon
#76. Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?
Sheldon Adelson
#77. Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
Sidney Sheldon
#78. Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry.
Sidney Sheldon
#79. String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#80. When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#81. For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat.
Sheldon Adelson
#83. For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses.
Sheldon Adelson
#84. If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
Sheldon Adelson
#85. Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#86. He had made money his god. As soon as that god was gone out of his little world there was nothing more to worship; and when a man's object of worship is gone he has no more to live for.
Charles M. Sheldon
#87. Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.
Sheldon K. Bass
#88. There was something tender and gentle about our love, something a little shy, that was like early spring.
Sheldon Vanauken
#89. Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
Sidney Sheldon
#90. God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.
Sidney Sheldon
#91. If God loves us enough to send us Prophets, then we need to love Him enough to follow them.
Sheldon F. Child
#92. Sharing hope is powerful stuff, and sharing knowledge is highly beneficial, but sharing love changes the world!
Sheldon K. Bass
#93. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.
Charles M. Sheldon
#94. Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.
Sheldon Richman
#95. Do you always throw your money away like this?"
"Only when I'm in love,
Sidney Sheldon
#97. Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit
Sidney Sheldon
#98. Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
Sidney Sheldon
#99. If you would seek to find yourself
look not in the mirror
for there is but a shadow there'
A stranger ...
SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH
Sidney Sheldon
#100. For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.
Sheldon B. Kopp
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