Poul Anderson Quotes

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

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• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Humour
  • Agnostic

• To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Long
  • China
  • Pollution

• Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Collection
  • Surreal

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• I'm an only child, and we're a close family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Child
  • Close

• As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Explore

• In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Health
  • Married
  • Health care

• The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Art
  • House

• You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Country
  • Die
  • Fight

• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Fear
  • Small

• I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Think
  • Idea

• I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Political

• A very unclubable man.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Stupid

• I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Home
  • Food
  • Tea

• Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Knowledge
  • Passion
  • Creativity

• If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Animal
  • Situation
  • Harmony

• Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.

  

  Matt Haig
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • Life
  • Friend

• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

  

  Poul Anderson