Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Arthur C. Clarke

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Social
  • Coincidence

• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Attention
  • Always
  • See

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Why
  • Best
  • Ideas

• But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • High
  • Feeling

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
  • Generation
  • Talk

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Born
  • Were

• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  

  Beck
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Nature

• I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Time
  • Society

• When I was growing up, I was watching Steffi... she taught me, actually, that I'm on a good way and try to believe in myself.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Record
  • Destroy
  • Championship

• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  

  E. B. White
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Myself

• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Science