“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a dilettante? To be eternally amused? To be of no account? To be so effete and faintly ridiculous that you have convinced all who know you of your own worthlessness? All so that your life may be safe even though it means it has become barely worth living. But even so, once in a while I can fight them.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“Yok olmaktan kurtulanların pek azını teşkil eden bu edebiyat, beni kendisine aşık etti. Bizim dışa dönük dünyamızın tam aksine bu eserlerde içe dönük bir şeyler var.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“Gecenin bastırması, kökleri insanlık tarihinin başlarına kadar uzanan büyük bir psikolojik huzursuzluk yaratır. Gece daima bir güvensizlik ve korku zamanıdır ve cesaret güneşle birlikte batıp gitmiştir.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“Öylesine gülünç olacaksınız ki herkes bir hiç olduğunuza inanacak. Bunun da tek amacı hayatınızı korumak... Gerçekten yaşanmaya değer olup olmadığı şüpheli olan hayatınızı...”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“In fact, it was part of the Tyrannian military tradition that a little discomfort on the part of the soldier was good for discipline.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
“Being helpless is one of the things that isn’t altogether amusing." - Gilbert”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust
Isaac Asimov
Born place: in Petrovichi, Russian Federation
Born date January 2, 1920
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“Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.”
I was totally confused. “In the car?”
“In your life,” he said.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Sloppy Firsts
“And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?”
― Alexandra Ripley, quote from Scarlett
“Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.”
― Sarah Ockler, quote from Twenty Boy Summer
“Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Vanishing Acts
“Hiding in relative comfort, I remember to be terrified.”
― Rae Carson, quote from The Girl of Fire and Thorns
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