Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Arthur C. Clarke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

Topics

WaveVacuumSymbolismFactHopeful

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Johan Huizinga

UnderstandingJudgmentStandardsWell

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

John Dickerson

BlindYouNobodyYesOutPresidency

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.

Stephen Graham Jones

YouEatBrainsUsOnlyZombie

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Stan Dale

DieYouComfortStayYourLined

I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

Steven Shainberg

LoveMovingLongThroughBeing

It's a different mind-set going into the off-season as a starter. The uncertainty from the team is gone, and your confidence grows.

Jordan Rodgers

ConfidenceTeamUncertaintyGone

I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

Dinah Manoff

GoodLuckGood LuckBackMamaWear

It goes without saying that the first few months after my son was born were the toughest of my life.

David Silva

LifeSonSayingMy LifeBornFirst

I've had great pregnancies, and healthy, beautiful children.

Brooke Burke

BeautifulChildrenGreatHealthyHad

If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.

Anthony Albanese

LifeCelebrateLawyerConstitution

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

Alfred de Vigny

GodManUnityWorldEyeEnd

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

William Godwin

ManImpossibleNothingMoreCorrupt

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