David Brin Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by David Brin

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When it comes to privacy and accountability,
people always demand the former for themselves and
the latter for everyone else.
- David Brin

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.
- David Brin

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy...
in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction,
which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.
- David Brin

My first duty to write a gripping yarn.
Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel.
Only third comes the idea.
- David Brin

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature
should explore how people deal with it.
The best science fiction does that, head-on.
- David Brin

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work,
I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more
often than physical science.
- David Brin

We already live a very long time for mammals,
getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant.
It never seems enough though, does it?
- David Brin

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Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry
can perform well in democracy.
- David Brin

I like to be surprised.
Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds.
Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling.
Writing feels like exploring.
- David Brin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more
true that power attracts the corruptible.
The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
- David Brin

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product.
The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
- David Brin

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people
are going to be involved even in heroic events.
- David Brin

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
- David Brin

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
- David Brin

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
- David Brin

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people
always apologize to corpses?
- David Brin

I find humans tremendously interesting.
- David Brin

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her,
unasked, into a strange world.
One should never make an offer without knowing full
well what will happen if it is accepted.
- David Brin

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way,
about the characters, their past histories and the
political intrigues that surround them.
This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice
it by deciding too much in advance.
- David Brin

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout
history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter,
has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions.
It often proved fatal.
- David Brin

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting
they are part of a civilization.
They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down.
It's happened many times in the past.
It could happen to us.
- David Brin

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction.
I've had some failures.
On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the
Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam...
and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
- David Brin

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many
authors to write better science fiction.
And yet, several of the very best were English majors
who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
- David Brin

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio
terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest.
But the real enemy was the kind of male human being
who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
- David Brin

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Change comes from within.
- Anonymous

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Max Lucado

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We listen. We listen. We move.
We sit. It rains. The sun comes out.
(there stands a friend)
We listen. We laugh. We share.
We sit. We dance. It rains.
There stands a friend.
We listen. We share. We sit. We dance.
The sun comes up.
There. I stand, a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau

The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie