Isaac Quotes

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning

There is no Master but the Master, ” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Genius is patience.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.

Dispassion doesn't mean to no longer feel the passions, but to no longer accept them.

There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.

Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.

The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.

We must believe in free will. We have no choice.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. - Ravi Zacharias' brother

This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.

How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

In the darkest and strangest of places with the most macabre of company, this music moves her and her life pulses hard... And even for Julie's safety, I can't bring myself to smother it.

When was the last time she had trusted God, really rusted Him, without reservations, without a backup plan or a safety net?

What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What’s at our core, then? What’s still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be."Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.