In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. Heinlein
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein
"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Robert A. Heinlein
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Robert A. Heinlein
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. Heinlein
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein
"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Robert A. Heinlein
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Robert A. Heinlein
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
analies:
I LOVE YOU!! i had this dream where you had this new job you like and were making good money, and i was visiting you and you were very happy, you were dressed sharp, had a fresh hair cut and you had a very clean place and all you were doing was smiling. It was a lovely dream.