Dictionary Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.” quote by Robert A. Heinlein — Download Open image

“Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Dictionary Dictionary Sober Like love Love Love Does Love means Mean Sober Sovereign Sovereign Like Want

More by Robert A. Heinlein

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

Explore all 888 Robert A. Heinlein quotes

More Dictionary quotes

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an…

Shefali Zariwala

Image

“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.”

Abhijit Naskar

Image

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Orrin Woodward

Image

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's…

Jimmy Durante

Image

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Charles R. Swindoll

Image

“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words for swords,…

Mark Forsyth

Image

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

Mae West

Image

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything…

Shaquille O'Neal

Image

“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart”

Nikita Tak

Image

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely…

Kid Cudi