Time Enough for Love (1973)
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Variant: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
“When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
(1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
This quote has been attributed to Hendrix on the internet, and is flatly denied to have ever been said by him, without presenting any evidence as to why, beyond such unsupported, derisive and denigrative statements such as the author rants about others making in "WHAT HENDRIX NEVER SAID : They Don't Want to Know What He Really Said and Demand a Slacker Fantasy Instead" (22 March 2010) by Michael Fairchild, at rockprophecy.com http://www.rockprophecy.com/hendrix_quotes_hoax.html. Whether or not he ever spoke them, they are very similar to those reportedly of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) edited by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman, p. 639: "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." A similar quotation he provides of Sri Chinmoy predates any currently located source of either the Hendrix or Gladstone attributions, yet he accuses Chinmoy of simple plagiarism of Gladstone (or "Gladwell" at one point). From Chinmoy's book My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) he quotes: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God."
Disputed
Variant: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”
Barack Obama
(1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Andrei Tarkovsky
(1932–1986) Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
Ernest Hemingway
(1899–1961) American author and journalist
“There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.”
Variant: There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
Source: On War (1832), Book 2
“He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”
Julius Tandler
(1869–1936) Austrian physician & politician
“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
Pythagoras
(-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda
(1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Jean Cocteau
(1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Opium (1929)
“To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd”
Aristotle
(-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“I have not told half of what I saw.”
Marco Polo
(1254–1324) Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia
Non ho scritto neppure la metà delle cose che ho visto.
On his death-bed, when urged to retract "some of the seemingly incredible statements he made in his book", as quoted in The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (J. M. Dent, 1926), p. xxiv. Quote in Italian from Imago mundi seu Chronica (c. 1330) by Jacopo d'Acqui, as reported in the bibliographic note to Marco Polo: Storia del mercante che capì la Cina (2009) by Vito Bianchi.
“A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.”
John Wayne
(1907–1979) American film actor