Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Book
  • Goal
  • Doing

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Desire

• I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Real
  • Want
  • Artist

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • City
  • Morning

• Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • Security
  • Well

• Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

  

  Ian Hacking

• As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.

  

  Karl Marx

• A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Family
  • Together

• A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Party
  • Decision

• MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Question
  • Laughter

• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Men
  • Understanding

• Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Art
  • Game
  • Chess

• The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Purpose

• We plucked down all His altars, left not oneSave where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet),We laid our garlands in the sunAt the white Sea-born's feet.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Joy
  • Sea

• About President Bush's stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from AIDS. So to just throw a bunch of condoms over to Africa and say, here, we're helping you with AIDS, is just going to further the spread of AIDS over there.

  

  Christine O'Donnell

• The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Nature
  • Small

• Christina Stead has a Chinese say, 'Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us'-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Age
  • Decision

• The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Father

• There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Cutting