Riguelis > Riguelis's Quotes

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Y porque se sabe pasajero, el poder siempre es cruel [...] Puedes dudar de toda la historia de nuestro siglo, menos de la universalidad de su terror”
― Carlos Fuentes

“La visión fue tan confusa y poderosa a la vez que se sintió mal y se vio obligado a detenerse, cruzar los brazos sobre el volante y reposar allí la cabeza, cerrar los ojos y repetirse en silencio que desde el inicio de esta aventura había jurado ser totalmente disponible, asumir todas las situaciones, dejarse llevar por cualquier sugestión, estar abierto a todas las alternativas y, esto era lo más difícil, mantener su inteligencia afilada siempre, afinando los accidentes azarosos o voluntarios que los demás crearían en su camino, percibiéndolos pero jamás impidiéndolos o rehusándolos”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Hydra Head

“Despertó más tarde, con sobresalto. Ahora no veía nada, por más que intentara perforar la oscuridad de los túneles. Hizo girar febrilmente los ojos en las órbitas secas. Tuvo la horrible sensación de que los globos de la mirada raspaban el lecho de nervios, tejidos y sangre en el que normalmente reposaban, deshebrándose como queso parmesano sobre una lijadura de metal.”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Hydra Head

“Pero secretamente añadí que consideraba a Félix como algo mío, el hermano que vivió el lado difícil de la vida que a mí no me tocó, el amante platónico que todas las noches se tendía junto a mí en la cama convertible y me contaba extraordinarias películas que jamás se filmaron o más bien superpelículas ideales fabricadas de trozos que él amaba particularmente, un rostro, un gesto, una situación, un lugar arrebatados a la muerte por la cámara”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Hydra Head

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife’s grave. Then I joined the army.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War: Book 1

“Do not mourn me, friends I fall as a shooting star Into the next life”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“What is it like when you lose someone you love?” Jane asked. “You die, too,” I said. “And you wait around for your body to catch up.” “Is that what you’re doing now?” Jane said. “Waiting for your body to catch up, I mean.” “No, not anymore,” I said. “You eventually get to live again. You just live a different life, is all.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“The Three Laws of Robotics:

1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;

2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;

3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;

The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself—what's the expression—ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. 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.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“Because, if you stop to think of it, the three Rules of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a good many of the world’s ethical systems. Of course, every human being is supposed to have the instinct of self-preservation. That’s Rule Three to a robot. Also every ‘good’ human being, with a social conscience and a sense of responsibility, is supposed to defer to proper authority; to listen to his doctor, his boss, his government, his psychiatrist, his fellow man; to obey laws, to follow rules, to conform to custom—even when they interfere with his comfort or his safety. That’s Rule Two to a robot. Also, every ‘good’ human being is supposed to love others as himself, protect his fellow man, risk his life to save another. That’s Rule One to a robot. To put it simply—if Byerley follows all the Rules of Robotics, he may be a robot, and may simply be a very good man.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“Oh, hell! I can’t sleep!” “Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle.”   Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Lo verdaderamente miedoso no son las mordeduras de serpiente, cuyo veneno puede acabar con una vida en 0.5 minutos, los terremotos, los ataques alienígenas o el fin del mundo. Lo verdaderamente miedoso es cómo el miedo nos paraliza, nos aniquila, nos deja despojados de razón. Lo miedoso son las cosas que dejamos de hacer, los silencios que cultivamos como plantas de jardín interior, los atajos que comenzamos a transitar para no enfrentarnos a nada, a nadie, ni a nosotros mismos. Lo miedoso es cuando el miedo se convierte en obstáculo, en trampa, en excusa. Cuando nos convertimos en hipocondríacos emocionales, siempre listos para buscar un diagnóstico que confirme nuestras sospechas y valide nuestras inseguridades y paranoias.”
― Amalia Andrade Arango, Cosas que piensas cuando te muerdes las uñas

“Another time she said, “What I find interesting is that of all these religious figures of ancient times, only the Buddha did not claim to be a god, or to be talking to God. The others all claim to be God, or God’s son, or to be taking dictation from God. Whereas the Buddha simply said, there is no God. The universe itself is holy, human beings are sacred, all the sentient beings are sacred and can work to be enlightened, and one must only pay attention to daily life, the middle way, and give thanks and worship in daily action. It is the most unassuming of religions. Not even a religion, but more a way to live.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt

“What I find interesting is that of all these religious figures of ancient times, only the Buddha did not claim to be a god, or to be talking to God. The others all claim to be God, or God’s son, or to be taking dictation from God. Whereas the Buddha simply said, there is no God. The universe itself is holy, human beings are sacred, all the sentient beings are sacred and can work to be enlightened, and one must only pay attention to daily life, the middle way, and give thanks and worship in daily action. It is the most unassuming of religions. Not even a religion, but more a way to live.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt

“The intellect derives from the senses, which are limited, and come from the body. The intellect therefore is also limited, and it can never truly know reality, which is infinite and eternal.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt