Poul Anderson Quotes

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

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• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Existence

• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Love
  • Feel

• The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Family
  • May
  • Home

• I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Child
  • Cancer

• I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Kid

• The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Best

• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • America
  • Best

• The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reality

• It is absurd to look for perfection.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Look
  • Perfection
  • Absurd

• If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Good
  • Sex

• American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • American
  • Justice

• Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Think
  • You
  • Bible

• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Quality
  • Balance
  • Attitude

• Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

  

  Belle Boyd

• I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • People
  • Hand

• Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Simple

• I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I'm quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story.

  

  Chris Ofili
  • Real
  • Reading
  • Boy

• Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Miracle

• Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

  

  John Ridley
  • Time
  • May
  • Father

• Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Trying
  • Magic

• You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Bold