Robert A. Heinlein słynne cytaty
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Robert A. Heinlein cytaty
Robert A. Heinlein: Cytaty po angielsku
“Why do you like to play chess so well?”
“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.”
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?”
“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)
Źródło: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 12, “Tau Ceti” (p. 122)
Źródło: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 8, “Relativity” (p. 82)
“Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”
Źródło: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 70)
“I decided not to cross any bridges I had burned behind me.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 20 (p. 224)
Źródło: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 10 (p. 108)
“Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 25 (p. 260)
“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 244)
“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)
“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”
Źródło: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)
“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 33 (p. 353)
“I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 27 (p. 286)
“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)
“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 15 (p. 137)
“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 12 (p. 110)
“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”
Źródło: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”
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.
Źródło: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 13 (p. 169)
“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”
Źródło: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 8 (p. 94)
