Robert Shelton Quotes

I'm happy to just be able to come across things. I don't need to be happy. Happiness is a kind of cheap word. Let's face it, I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. I would commit suicide. I would shoot myself in the brain if things got bad. I would jump from a window…you know, I can think about death openly. It's nothing to fear. It's nothing sacred. I've seen so many people die. Life's not sacred either ~ Bob Dylan

I think you people are just marvelous," she said in a dramatic manner, closing her eyes for a moment.

"You know, sometimes I hear the Great Spirit calling to me. Perhaps I was a squaw in my last life. My family would never talk about it when I was growing up, but I'm pretty sure my great-grandmother was a real Cherokee princess. Are you Cherokee, by any chance?"

"Cherokee to the bone, ma'am," Luther replied, giving Jimmy a wink.

"Oh, I knew it when I laid eyes on you," she responded and turned to Jimmy. "Are you also Cherokee?"

"No, ma'am. I wanted to be but I didn't have the grades to get in."

"Oh, you poor dear," the woman said, reaching over to pat him on the arm. ~ Robert Owings

While there might be some people who were natural diplomats, she wasn't one of them. She was forever butting heads with people, challenging them when she should have been convincing them, raising hackles where she should have been raising support. She had always been in a hurry, without always knowing where she wanted to go; she was too impatient to wait for the right time or the right confluence of events. ~ Robert Masello

And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century. ~ Robert Reich

The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty with which we may expect the same effects from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason. ~ Thomas Robert Malthus

You've always needed to see something to believe it--sometimes you lack faith, my dear. Go take a look." Patrick ~ A. Robert Allen

I was such a fan of 'True Blood;' I knew the essence of it. ~ Robert Kazinsky

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you. ~ Robert Jordan

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. ~ Robert K. Greenleaf

Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably. ~ Robert Nozick

If you're in your early twenties, don't put so much importance on the money, on the raise. Getting an extra thousand dollars a year is okay, but the real thing is the responsibility and the power and the experience that you're learning. ~ Robert Greene

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy. ~ Robert Breault

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault

Winning means so much, and not winning always mentally frustrates and then pushes me physically to be a BEAST all summer.I LOVE THIS GAME. ~ Jon-Robert Holden

But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need arises; ~ Robert Harris

Sure, [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything that he did… backwards and in high heels. ~ Robert Thaves

Everything is really about lighting. ~ Robert Denning

Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever. ~ Robert X. Cringely

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. ~ Robert Scheer

Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors. ~ Robert James Thomson

You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again." ~ Nynaeve ~ Robert Jordan

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. ~ Robert Mugabe

I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem. ~ Robert Barry

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. ~ Robert E.Lee

He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain other feelings - feelings he usually kept under tight rein, considering them both misguided and dangerous - to flex inside him, to test their strength against their restraining bonds. ~ Robert Galbraith

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another. ~ Robert James Waller

But my social circle had dwindled. Hell, all I had was a social dot - just me on a one man continuum. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson

Turning a negative into a positive is an expressway to success. ~ Robert Evans

Can you analyze our relationship in the light of Silvermanian pragmatism?" I said.

"I love you because I find it compelling to be loved so entirely. You love me
because as long as you do you can believe in romantic love. ~ Robert B. Parker

It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night ... ~ Robert Jordan

But you're not really allowed to complain about any of this, You're just supposed to be grateful. And obviously-I get it. You're lucky and you should appreciate your luck. But, I mean, it just seems if you even hint that there's a bad side to any of this people will be like-Liar! I guess it's because people want to have it as a dream ~ Robert Pattinson

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad. ~ Robert Kuttner

Starting now and lasting until forever, your health and healthcare will be determined, to a remarkable and somewhat disquieting degree, by how well the technology works. ~ Robert Wachter

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free. ~ Robert Southey

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers. ~ Robert E.Lee

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience. ~ Robert Anthony

Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons. ~ Robert Aickman

The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things -with- which he was created, and -in- which he is redeemed. Don't knock materiality. God invented it. ~ Robert Farrar Capon

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid - she only asks that you cease interfering. ~ Herbert M. Shelton

How the English love playing at being naughty boys! ~ Robert Gottlieb

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all. ~ Robert Frost

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science. ~ Robert Winston

If I am so fortunate as to be listening to the Hammerklavier sonata, the only correct answer, if you ask me suddenly, "Who are you?" would be to hum the Hammerklavier. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term. ~ Robert Barry