Larry Niven Quotes

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

Larry Niven

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• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Up
  • Good
  • Doing

• I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Feel
  • Doing
  • Guilty

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Singing
  • Doing
  • Boring

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Small
  • Need
  • Unknown

• I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Happy
  • Airplane

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Short

• People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Why
  • Home
  • Game

• The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • China
  • Communist

• If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • You
  • Someone
  • Sweetness

• I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Mind
  • House

• When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Door

• Je reculeÉbloui de me voir moi même tout vermeilEt d’avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.

  

  Edmond Rostand

• The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Duty
  • Journalist
  • Watchman

• There are only two things a child will share willingly-communicable diseases and his mother's age.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Mother
  • Age

• The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror, the bones rebel at each step, the mind sets up its own bitter resistance and to what end? The barriers sink one by one, and no covering of the eyes shuts out the landscape of disaster, nor the sight of crimes committed there.

  

  Katherine Anne Porter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mind

• Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

  

  Francis Asbury
  • Heaven
  • Heard
  • Torture

• I'm telling you, November 8, we better be careful, because that presidential election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it's going to be taken away from us.

  

  Brian Stelter
  • Republicans
  • Presidential election

• Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

  

  Larry Niven