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See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.


Ray Bradbury

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HENRY DE BRACTON Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it wo...
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BERNHARD LANGER The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU People think we ask for too much information or are too stringent, but we don't offer any apologies ...
GRANT TOLBERT What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
HAL NEWHOUSER If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFro...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS This was very bittersweet. I am glad. A no vote would have put us into a death spiral for the facili...
RICK CHILSON This will be paid for, there's no debt. We're not going to do have to do a levy and ask for money fr...
JOE JENKINS For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness
TERENCE Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
ELBERT HUBBARD Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
ELBERT HUBBARD Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
TIGER WOODS Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than ...
ELBERT HUBBARD There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scie...
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scient...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Everybody's stepped up. You can't ask for any more than how we've hit these first couple games.
ERIC BOYD Don't ever ask for permission to follow your dreams. Follow them no matter fucking what. It's import...
JARED LETO The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl...
ALICE WALKER If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
KERI HARVEY Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF For me, this is the dream job. Meaningful work for an institution I care about. What more could you ...
MARINE COLDICK CAMP I bought some Bradbury borders on eBay, didn't use them all, put what I had left back on eBay and go...
LISA KLOFKORN Of all the dreams of love that ever I have dreamed, no matter how fantastic, no matter how unbelieva...
TONNY K. BROWN Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
ELBERT HUBBARD Damn it, there is no world if there is not a human eye to see it, no world of any purpose or meaning...
DEAN KOONTZ It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE HOPPER Ask Yourself this Question. Is The World Any Better Off For My Being There? ™
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SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scienti...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Everything was in the golfer's favor this morning. No wind. Perfect weather. Greens, superb conditio...
GRAHAM MARSH I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers...
ROBERT WALPOLE Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.
ELBERT HUBBARD Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do
ELBERT HUBBARD We put five in the top 15 and my sixth-place runner p.r'd by 30 seconds. You can't ask for any more ...
GEORGE PIERCE It's not a dream season, but I'm pleased. We're having fun. What more can you ask for?
ANTHONY MIX Ask for far more than you think you’re going to get.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN It's all siblings. You can't ask for much more than that.
CHASE WESTFALL Will: I didn't ask for this.
Sean: No, you were born with it. So don't cop out behind 'I didn't...
GOOD WILL HUNTING Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?” she asks. “Boy who kills ghosts for a living?�...
KENDARE BLAKE I couldn't ask for anything better on my birthday than having the cup in my hands. It was a fantasti...
STEVE COSTALAS No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
T.S. ELIOT No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Never ASSUME, never EXPECT, never ASK or SPEAK, never take for GRANTED any person especially for tho...
MELGA AGUILLON Surprisingly, they're great for the conditions. You couldn't ask to get more for calves than they're...
REGINALD RIEGER I couldn't ask for a better place to play. I couldn't ask for anything more.
LESLIE CONETTA If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Doe...
DAVID HUME If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does...
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ALICE WALKER We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impres...
ARISTOTLE The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
GEORGES BERNANOS I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
CONRAD BLACK There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation o...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It is easier for the son to ask from the father than for the father to ask from the son.
VIKRANT PARSAI He made us very proud. My sons turned out beautiful. I couldn't ask for more.
MARCOS HERRERA She's every coach's dream. She's competitive. She's smart. She works hard. I couldn't ask for anythi...
LISA WHITE It can't get any better than that. We don't like them and they don't like us. What more can you ask ...
BEN GUIDUGLI If they ask if it was filmed in Wyoming, we tell them no. If they don't ask, we just tell them about...
DIANE SHOBER Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 It is vain for bishops and pious b...
G. K. CHESTERTON I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed... Don't ask for guarantees. A...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Even when we do survey work for the department we may ask for ethnic background or the number of peo...
JANICE OKUBO Let's try and pay more attention to what's around us. Look up. Look down - if only so you don't trip...
ELLEN DEGENERES Drink from the ethereal philosophy of Heaven and you may see life as no more no less than a dream ma...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
ILONA ANDREWS We've got no money to plow the roads. I've been having to ask for volunteers.
JEFFREY DEMENTIEFF No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means...
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI Ask for alternatives. There is no one right answer and there are multiple options.
DR. ARASH NAEIM I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We might ask you in a notice or a letter to explain your answer on something but it would be very un...
ANTHONY BURKE We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single casualty, or a...
KARL SHAPIRO No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fi...
JOHN LOCKE Parents are clueless. They have no idea you can ask out, just like they have no idea they can view t...
LISA SAMPSON The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
NAPOLEON HILL There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspec...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Ever since that Jack Eigen kiss incident, people don't ask me for my autograph any more.
CLEO MOORE I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off ...
SARAH MOORE GRIMKé I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off o...
SARAH MOORE GRIMKE No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself mor...
SEAMUS HEANEY Congressmen ask for what their constituents ask for,
MARJORIE WARD Once you have the support of the lads around you, you can't ask for any more.
KEVIN PIETERSEN It feels fantastic. I've been waiting for this win for many years, ... I've tried hard and I've work...
RAPHAEL JACQUELIN The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, W...
GEORGE CARLIN Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Kids, no matter how big your problems are – ask your parents for help and advice.
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RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing
RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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