“Achieving real, lasting change is much harder than firing weapons at a defined enemy,’ she said.” — Fay Abernethy Copy Share Image
Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements." — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
“Greatest among us are those who can deploy “my friend” to total strangers in a way that is not hollow, but somehow… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“The notion of a universe filled with cowards... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become... seems no[t] only unimaginative… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“ Meeting and Greeting 1. Use eye contact and smiling as your first contact with others. In doing so, you can scout… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
“The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast… — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
“It was the middle of the afternoon, on a sunny day in early August of 1952, when we pulled into the bus… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I’d have to agree.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“José Arcadio’s companion asked them to leave them alone, and the couple lay down on the ground, close to the bed. The… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“If the Philistines were early associated with the Minoan civilization, and the Pulasti were an Aegean people, it is to be concluded… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence,… — Fay Abernethy Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
“ I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and… — Timothy James Dean Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
I like to go into the box and score goals, maybe from first contact or two touches. — Kai Havertz Copy Share Image
So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts,… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
