“Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive—and unpredictable.”
Robert A. Heinlein book I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 26, p. 452
Al-Khisal, p. 60
[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Jasim al-Rasheed, The Life of Imam Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Baqir, His traditions from the Prophet, 1999]
“Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive—and unpredictable.”
Robert A. Heinlein book I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 26, p. 452
“When a society spends more on advertising than it does on education, where is it headed?”
Stanley Knowles (1908–1997) Canadian politician
Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 8, The Forecast Is Good, p. 102
Context: What shall it profit us, unless life in the midst of it all has meaning? When a society spends more on advertising than it does on education, where is it headed?
“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist