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Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) QUOTES

Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) QUOTES

1 " I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

2 " The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

3 " Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

4 " He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

5 " The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

6 " There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

7 " For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

8 " Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

9 " The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

10 " Pyscho-history dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

11 " And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors’ time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

12 " It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

13 " I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

14 " After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

15 " Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

16 " To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

17 " Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

18 " You’re surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can’t stand up under it. In the sleep period, you’re free. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

19 " I’m being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

20 " The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)