Cordwainer Quotes & Sayings

The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel. — Tullian Tchividjian

She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is - a cat!"
But that was not how his mind saw her - quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.
Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her? — Cordwainer Smith

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters. — Cordwainer Smith

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!
Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
One, still one, while the world grows old. — Alfred Noyes

Crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time. — Cordwainer Smith

Joan commented, upon sentence, My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me. — Cordwainer Smith

Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins. — Terry Pratchett

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. — Julia Child

In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles. — John Boyega

... but remember that I shall love your sorrow... — Cordwainer Smith

I knew what it was like to have holes in my life in the shape of people who should have been there. — Jim Butcher

Quince reaches me, and instead of wrapping me in a hug like I expect, he reaches for my hair. I try to swim back, away from the near-desperate look in his eyes, afraid that he's going to fail the test.
He tugs something from my hair.
I look down and see a Padina antillarum - a beautiful little seaweed shaped like ginkgo leaves - in his hand. And it's glowing.
"You," he says with an explosive grin. "You are the sixteenth object. — Tera Lynn Childs

There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting. — Cordwainer Smith

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire ... — Cordwainer Smith

And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back. — Cordwainer Smith

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good ... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it. — Emily Martin

Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. you can't find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you're not enough, never enough never ever enough . — Tahereh Mafi

Life is but a play of chance in the game of choice. — Twinkle Khanna