David Brin Quotes
Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do.I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.
Quotes to Explore
-
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
-
It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
-
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
-
No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
-
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
-
I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
-
The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
-
I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
-
I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
-
I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.
-
I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
-
I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
-
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
-
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.
-
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
-
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
-
I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
-
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
-
MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
-
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.
-
A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
-
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
-
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
-
Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do.I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.
