Robert A. Heinlein citations célèbres
Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais
Robert A. Heinlein livre They
They (p. 60)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
“Why do you like to play chess so well?”
Robert A. Heinlein livre They
“Because it is the only thing in the world where I can see all the factors and understand all the rules.”
They (p. 55)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
And He Built a Crooked House (p. 33)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Methuselah's Children
Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out.”
Methuselah’s Children (p. 667; closing words)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“What course of action do you favor?”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Methuselah's Children
“Me? Why, none. Mary, if there is any one thing I have learned in the past couple of centuries, it’s this: These things pass. Wars and depressions and Prophets and Covenants—they pass. The trick is to stay alive through them.”
Methuselah’s Children (p. 539)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Time for the Stars
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 12, “Tau Ceti” (p. 122)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Time for the Stars
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 8, “Relativity” (p. 82)
“Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Time for the Stars
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 70)
“I decided not to cross any bridges I had burned behind me.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Time for the Stars
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 69)
“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Time for the Stars
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 5, “The Party of the Second Part” (p. 54)
“I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Time for the Stars
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 2, “The Natural Logarithm of Two” (p. 24)
“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Citizen of the Galaxy
Source: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 20 (p. 224)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Citizen of the Galaxy
Source: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 10 (p. 108)
“Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 25 (p. 260)
“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 244)
“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Podkayne of Mars
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Podkayne of Mars
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 5 (p. 50)
“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 33 (p. 353)
“I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 27 (p. 286)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 257)
“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)
“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 15 (p. 137)
“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 12 (p. 110)
“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Podkayne of Mars
There must be a flaw in that, since I’ve always been taught that it is wrong to take the law in your own hands. But I can’t find the flaw and it sounds axiomatic, self-evident. Switch it around. If something is wrong for one person to do, can it possibly be made right by having a lot of people (a government) agree to do it together? Even unanimously?
If anything is wrong, it is wrong—and vox populi can’t change it.
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 13 (p. 169)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Podkayne of Mars
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 125)
“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Podkayne of Mars
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 8 (p. 94)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Podkayne of Mars
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 6 (p. 60)
