Robert W. Service Quotes
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Quotes to Explore
-
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
-
After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
-
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
-
Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
-
At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
-
Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
-
In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
-
I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
-
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
-
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
-
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
-
I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
-
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
-
We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
-
I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.
-
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
-
The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
-
In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
-
Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
-
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
-
I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.
-
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)
-
Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.
-
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.