Helmreich Alien Quotes & Sayings

I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth. — Kit Harington

Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but why lie to the people? Why assure the people they are right in their ignorance and that their crude prejudices are sacred truth? Can any splendid future possibly justify this basr lie? Were I a politician, I could never make up my mind to shame my present for the sake of the future, even though I might be promised tons of bliss for a pinch of foul lying. — Anton Chekhov

I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter. — Stephen Strasburg

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it — Margaret Atwood

But sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you. — Laurel Snyder

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults. — Haim Ginott

It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred. — Norman Dodd

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person. — Katarina Bivald

He dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers — William Makepeace Thackeray

He stood up, those long legs of his stretching out his jeans nicely.

Not that she was staring at his jeans. Much. — Carrie Ann Ryan

Whatever power I exert is collegial. — Katharine Graham

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise. — Thomas Reid

To be unbroken, what would that be?
If words that were spoken, had not shattered me — ZOEgirl

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it. — Idries Shah

She must rest for a moment. And, resting, looking from one to the other vaguely, the old question which traversed the sky of the soul perpetually, the vast, the general question which was apt to particularise itself at such moments as these, when she released faculties that had been to the strain, stood over her, paused over her, darkened over her. What is the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. — Virginia Woolf