Robert Heinlein Starship Troopers Quotes & Sayings

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl. — Patti Stanger

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? — Billy Corgan

Life is precious. It's more precious when you are in love. — Debasish Mridha

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language! — Alec Baldwin

I don't want to tell people what they should think. — Aasif Mandvi

I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger — Richard Proenneke

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins. — Robert A. Heinlein

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are. — Andrea Gibson

There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.' — Ozzy Osbourne

If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey. — Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me. — Haile Gebrselassie

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence.

Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein

Fact was, little Carmen was so ornamental that you just never thought about her being useful. — Robert A. Heinlein