Isaac Asimov Quotes

'You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason-if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.'

Isaac Asimov

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• There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Deep
  • Spirit
  • Resistance

• When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Girl

• Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Enough
  • Win
  • Lose

• I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Write
  • Year
  • Two

• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Morning
  • Friendship

• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Praise
  • Without

• I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Know
  • Luck
  • Lucky

• All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Man
  • Education
  • Food

• I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Giving

• Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Society
  • Choice
  • Assumptions

• Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feel

• A very unclubable man.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Law

• Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

  

  Edith Evans
  • People

• He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Job
  • Integrity

• If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Money
  • Mouth
  • Shut

• We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.

  

  John P. Kotter
  • People
  • Help
  • Nature

• We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • More
  • Ourselves

• Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• 'You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason-if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.'

  

  Isaac Asimov