Ben Bova Quotes

Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

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• Sow flowers to make a garden bloom around you, The thorns you sow will prick your own feet. Arrows shot at others Will return to hit you as they fall. You yourself will come to teeter on the lip Of a well dug to undermine another. Though you look at others with contempt, It's you whose body will be reduced to dust. Humanity is all one body; To torture another is simply to wound yourself. [...]Make your path straight now, by the bright light of day; For pitch darkness will come without warning.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • Light
  • Fall
  • Humanity

• I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Important
  • Propaganda
  • Diplomacy

• It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Littles

• What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Inspiration
  • Grew Up
  • Shakespeare

• The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

  

  Mel Odom
  • People
  • World
  • Lying

• In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • In Order

• There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Person

• Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Swept
  • Tide Of Time

• It's a good idea for future Presidents Cups to have a reserve ready to play. The people want to see the match played as scheduled.

  

  Gary Player
  • Future
  • Idea
  • Presidents Cups

• Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Dangerous
  • Wedded

• I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Collaboration

• She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Saint
  • Killed
  • Martyr

• Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Every story is us

  

  Rumi
  • Story

• He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Knows
  • Wells
  • Chooses

• Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

  

  Ben Bova
  • Killed
  • Bullets
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