Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Arms

• I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Religion, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.121, Penguin

• Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Children, Men

• Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Hands

• If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Water, Stupidity

• At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Should Have, People

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 134, 1980.

• Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Zest, Giving

• Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Responsibility, Government

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.230, Penguin

• Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Events, Frozen

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Rolling Stones”, p.154, Baen Publishing Enterprises

• The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Thinking, Self

• Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Cost

• If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Horse, Differences

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

• When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Volunteer

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