Charles Sheffield Quotes

Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

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• It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Age
  • Black

• The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Complains
  • Feeble

• If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Real
  • High
  • Technology

• Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

  

  Kara Walker
  • American
  • True
  • Soul

• Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • Cat
  • View

• The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Liberty
  • New

• For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Relationship
  • Trust

• The Trump administration has done everything in its power to uphold the harsh racist reality we have faced.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Done
  • Power
  • Reality

• Ofglen is a little different than the other Handmaids because she has a really rebellious spirit and she has the hope that she could escape.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Different
  • She
  • Hope

• I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Church

• I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Career

• I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

  

  Luke Evans
  • School

• I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.

  

  Jeremy Gilley
  • Great
  • Success

• Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

  

  James Geary

• I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Kiss

• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Logic
  • Fact
  • Hunger

• You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.

  

  Keith Brantly
  • Running
  • Criticism
  • Sound

• Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Long
  • Comedy
  • Math

• Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

  

  Clayton Christensen

• Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

  

  Charles Sheffield
  • Home
  • Soul
  • Running