David Brin Quotes
All legends must be based on lies, Gordon realized. We exaggerate, and even come to believe the tales, after a while.
Quotes to Explore
-
My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
-
I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
-
We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
-
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
-
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
-
It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
-
Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
-
My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
-
I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
-
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
-
Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
-
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
-
If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
-
There's work for everybody, and I believe every actor gets what he/she deserves. Honestly, I just want to work as long as I can and do great films and act with every good actor around.
-
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
-
I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
-
I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
-
Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
-
I don't believe there's any reason for a person like myself to own an AK-47.
-
We do all the first samples here and all the production in the garment center, within these few blocks... I love the process.
-
I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
-
I wouldn't say there is one specific designer I rock. It's more of the look of the shirt and what occasion and where I'm wearing it to.
-
There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
-
All legends must be based on lies, Gordon realized. We exaggerate, and even come to believe the tales, after a while.
