Larry Niven Quotes

Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.

Larry Niven

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• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
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  • Small
  • Build

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
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  • Over

• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Touch
  • Starts
  • Straw

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• I just want to have a nice, happy life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nice

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Old
  • Avengers

• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• … the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Ego

• Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Men
  • Together

• I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
  • Together
  • Picture

• His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Sky
  • Leaving

• Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • College
  • Comedy

• One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• [Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Feeling
  • Humanity
  • Decoration

• One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Lost

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics

• Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Ethics