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Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits
There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.
James Hilton, Lost Horizon (1933)
Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
He knows his leaders are not corrupted by intellectual paralysis.
Whats that mean? Syd asked dryly.
It means they act first and think second.
Philip K. Dick, The World Jones Made (1956)
Once human beings realize something can be done, theyre not satisfied until theyve done it.
Frank Herbert, Cease Fire (1958)
Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
If the human race ever stops acting on the basis of what it thinks it knows, paralyzed by the fear that its knowledge may be wrong, then Homo sapiens will be making its application for membership in the dinosaur club.
Hank Davis, To Plant a Seed (1972)
Each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (1972)
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (1972)
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, The Empire Strikes Back (film, 1980)
Honor is only a label they use for what they want you to do, Chernon. They want you to stay, so they call staying honorable.
Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Womens Country (1988)
Tenar sighed. There was nothing she could do, but there was always the next thing to be done.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990)
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
Gravity is easy-peasy by comparison.
Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead (1993)
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