Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)
Robert Anson Heinlein era autore di fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.“Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”
Origine: Time Enough for Love
“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variante: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
“If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)”
Variante: Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Origine: Time Enough for Love
““Die trying” is the proudest human thing.”
Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 11
“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”
Methuselah's Children (1958)
Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 2
“When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.”
Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7
“Television leaves no external scars.”
Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 3
“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”
The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Origine: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 3 (p. 20)
“How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?”
Life-Line (p. 15)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Origine: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 3, “—An Improper Question” (p. 53)
Origine: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 4, “Half a Loaf” (p. 44)
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)