Jack McDevitt Quotes
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Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.
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The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.
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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
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(He remarked) that anyone who truly wished to develop tolerance toward other human beings should start by casting aside any and all religious affiliation. When challenged by one of the other guests, he had asked innocently whether anyone could name a single person put to death or driven from his home by an atheist over theological matters.
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He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.
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Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
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'I can’t imagine,' said Dupre, 'a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.'
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
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Well, kids are never much on history. Nor for that matter was anybody else. It had been MacAllister’s experience that most people think anything that happened before they were born didn’t count for a whole lot.
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
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The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
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(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
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The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth.
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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.