Rob > Rob's Quotes

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
― Catherine Aird

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Be — don't try to become”
― Osho

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.”
― Lord Tennyson Alfred

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.”
― Catherine Aird, Passing Strange

“I'll eat you up I love you so.”
― Maurice Sendak

“You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Use the apple test

"If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.”
― Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“I wanted to kind of make this like, 'Yeah, this is what Batman would be in the real world'. But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans, that smelling, not having a girlfriend—these are actually kind of heroic! So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example. But I have people come up to me in the street saying, "I am Rorschach! That is my story!' And I'll be thinking: 'Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me, never come anywhere near me again as long as I live'?”
― Alan Moore

“We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“And if you’re ever feeling lonely just look at the moon.
Someone, somewhere, is looking right at it too.”
― Night Vale

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw

“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law