Clifford D. Simak Quotes

Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one another.

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• I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Best
  • Care

• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Family
  • You
  • Years

• Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • U.S.
  • Bureaucracy

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Wind
  • Smoke

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Dreams

• Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Child
  • Child Labor

• I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Words
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Well
  • Sport

• I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Decision
  • Blame
  • Court

• Loyalty to a company, it's nonsense.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Loyalty

• What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

  

  Jane Austen

• I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Guy

• My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • World
  • February

• I'm always trying to look for different roles.

  

  Eric Close
  • Different
  • Trying

• Having a friend in the Kremlin would help Trump fulfill his longtime dream of planting his name in the Moscow skyline - a dream that he pursued even as he organized his presidential campaign.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Help
  • Dream
  • Friend

• The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Words
  • Humanity

• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Win

• There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

  

  Asa Gray
  • Philosophical

• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Live
  • Way
  • Busy

• Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one another.

  

  Clifford D. Simak