Robert A. Heinlein Frases famosas
“Hein? Ah, você tem que cobrar deles, Jubal. Os otários não prestam atenção se for de graça.”
Livro Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha
“Eu sabia disso, queria saber se você também.”
Livro Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha
“Deus dividiu-se numa miríade de partes para que pudesse ter amigos.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Isto pode não ser verdade, mas soa bem -- e não é mais tolo do que qualquer outra teologia.
"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends." This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973, Página 216.
Robert A. Heinlein: Frases em inglês
Robert A. Heinlein livro They
They (p. 60)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
“Why do you like to play chess so well?”
Robert A. Heinlein livro They
“Because it is the only thing in the world where I can see all the factors and understand all the rules.”
They (p. 55)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
And He Built a Crooked House (p. 33)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Methuselah's Children
Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out.”
Methuselah’s Children (p. 667; closing words)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“What course of action do you favor?”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Methuselah's Children
“Me? Why, none. Mary, if there is any one thing I have learned in the past couple of centuries, it’s this: These things pass. Wars and depressions and Prophets and Covenants—they pass. The trick is to stay alive through them.”
Methuselah’s Children (p. 539)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Time for the Stars
Fonte: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 12, “Tau Ceti” (p. 122)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Time for the Stars
Fonte: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 8, “Relativity” (p. 82)
“Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Time for the Stars
Fonte: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 70)
“I decided not to cross any bridges I had burned behind me.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Time for the Stars
Fonte: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 69)
“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Time for the Stars
Fonte: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 5, “The Party of the Second Part” (p. 54)
“I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Time for the Stars
Fonte: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 2, “The Natural Logarithm of Two” (p. 24)
“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Citizen of the Galaxy
Fonte: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 20 (p. 224)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Citizen of the Galaxy
Fonte: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 10 (p. 108)
“Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 25 (p. 260)
“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 244)
“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Podkayne of Mars
Fonte: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Podkayne of Mars
Fonte: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 5 (p. 50)
“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 33 (p. 353)
“I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 27 (p. 286)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 257)
“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)
“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 15 (p. 137)
“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 12 (p. 110)
“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday
Fonte: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Podkayne of Mars
There must be a flaw in that, since I’ve always been taught that it is wrong to take the law in your own hands. But I can’t find the flaw and it sounds axiomatic, self-evident. Switch it around. If something is wrong for one person to do, can it possibly be made right by having a lot of people (a government) agree to do it together? Even unanimously?
If anything is wrong, it is wrong—and vox populi can’t change it.
Fonte: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 13 (p. 169)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Podkayne of Mars
Fonte: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 125)
“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”
Robert A. Heinlein livro Podkayne of Mars
Fonte: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 8 (p. 94)
Robert A. Heinlein livro Podkayne of Mars
Fonte: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 6 (p. 60)
