M. Clarke Quotes

Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God’shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

If daughters couldn't soften a man, then nothing would.

This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.

But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme....

[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.

It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.

Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget.

We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

Love is a wound, " the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

The butterflies in my stomach turn into vampire bats as we pull up to the school.

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.

Redemption is won in the light, but is wrought in the darkness.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

But if a girl don't have her intuition, she don't got anything.

Taking the safe road is good, but sometimes, you may miss what could be better. I’d rather love hard and get hurt then not really love at all.

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn’t know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting.

Who are we to question God’s decisions about where we’ll be born?…God does what He chooses without asking our opinions. Of that I’m sure.

…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.

For as long as I am here, let peace reign

Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.

Fair words butter no parsnips.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Strong convictions precede great actions.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.