Robert Quotes

Robert Quote of the day

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Try as you may, you can never defy love.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

Two such as you with such a master speedCannot be parted nor be swept awayFrom one another once you are agreedThat life is only life forevermoreTogether wing to wing and oar to oar

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

Being impatient is rocket fuel for success. I have seen very few patient successful people. Most are impatient and always ready to move!

Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

He sleeps with you?""Robert?"Stacey rolled her eyes at

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

That child of Hell had nothing human

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories

Son of Krypton!

When you believe your lie, it will curse your life forever.

How small life is hereand how big nothingness.The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow.The two trees bowtheir heads to each other.Clouds cross the world’ssilence in a circle dance

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error

Don't waste your time trying to understand why other people are happy with their choices

The best things in life are beyond money

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there, " he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

Gratitude and attitude are not challenges

Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power

Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.

The man who shouts wins battles

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time)

I don't write to be understood