Quotes of: Promised-land Keyword

Ben, why should anybody want that much power?" "Why does a moth fly toward light?

Stranger in a Strange Land

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Stranger in a Strange Land

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Stranger in a Strange Land

A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. --Cat Spydell

The Time Traveler's Apprentice at Hollywood High

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

Postcards from No Man's Land

The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod Everward, during the Fossil War.

Tremor

Be like a sparrow aspiring to be an ostrich, and I’ll be like a cowboy with no horse looking for a speedy land runner to ride.

This Book Has No Title

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

West of Last Chance

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Wintersmith

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

The Wanderess

Together kabobs make the world better than all the Bobs combined. Well, at least ever since Bob Ross moved on to the land of the happy trees.

Xazaqazax

The three rules of journalism are 1. Mislead, 2. Misinform, and 3. Misdirect. The news serves to sever you from reality and keep you in Fantasy Land.

Xazaqazax

A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

Stewart Udall

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.

Sail Upon the Land

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.

Reflections

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Lilla Crawford

Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars, including one that didn't have to do with Al Qaeda? Probably not.

Richard Engel