June 2009 Quotes

My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why
I got out of bed at all
- Dido (Thank You)

If you must pull a tooth, it is mistaken kindness to pull it slowly.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

Amazing...what clothes will obscure when not designed to reveal.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

The trouble with economizing is that it can be very expensive.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

Our people are trustworthy, but we do not wish to subject large numbers to temptations they need not face.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

Trust...doesn't come naturally to anyone. It is the weakness of humanity that we constantly read the worst into others.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

The body knows what it needs. That's why some things taste good.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

...the conquests of peace should always be held superior to victories in war.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

...it isn't the signing of the marriage book that makes one pregnant. It's the game of bed...
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

It is easy to be generous with someone else's money.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

To want peace and quiet above all else is to hope for death.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

There is no duress like one's own conscience and it is that which makes life so needlessly bitter.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)

Your private life should be pure. Make no compromise with vice; be able to say "no" in a firm manly manner.
- John H R Molson

You can't miss what you've never had.
- Isaac Asimov (Nemesis)

custom often has a habit of being stronger than legality.
- Isaac Asimov (Nemesis)

no matter how sure scientists think they are, nature has a way of surprising them.
- Isaac Asimov (Nemesis)

It's easier to imitate and overtake than it is to originate.
- Isaac Asimov (Nemesis)

life is a symphony of successive losses.
- Isaac Asimov (Nemesis)

True terror lay in the anticipation of the unknown.
- Dean Koontz (Dragon Tears)

...we human beings close ourselves off from each other not because of fear but out of an excess of love. We cannot open our hearts to our real feelings about each other because we are afraid it would hurt too much.
- Whitley Strieber (Transformation: The Breakthrough)

When people dismiss such innocent and uninformed testimony, they make a great mistake.
- Whitley Strieber (Communion)

Expression is the dress of thought...
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism, Part II)

All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism, Part III)

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
- Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock, Canto III)

Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbour with himself.
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man, Epistle II)

The learned is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more;
The rich is happy in the plenty given,
The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man, Epistle II)

By turns we catch the vital breath, and die
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man, Epistle III)

Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise?
'Tis but to know how little can be known;
To see all others' faults, and feel our own:
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man, Epistle IV)

Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise:
- Alexander Pope (The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace)