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Quotes from Have Space Suit—Will Travel — Robert A. Heinlein

1907–1988 United States

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13 quotes

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.”

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

“Die trying” is the proudest human thing.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

We lived like that “Happy Family“ you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

When a fact came along, he junked theories that failed to match.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

Some people insist that “mediocre” is better than “best.” They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah!

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

Television leaves no external scars.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

I've heard all the usual Sweetness and Light that kids get pushed at them—how they should always forgive, how there’s some good in the worst of us, etc. But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don’t plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people. A black widow spider can’t help it—but that’s the point.

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert A. Heinlein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.