Quotes About Theodore

Corinne suggested a different reason, indicating that her dying father had expressed concern about Theodore's intimacy with Edith, given Charles Carow's fiscal and temperamental instability. If Theodore discussed the issue with Edith that night, he might well have triggered the volatility that he would obscurely explain to Bamie as a clash of tempers "that were far from being of the best.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

For a while he sat idly outside his door brooding in the spring sun. In The Lost Phoebe.

Theodore," Edith remarked, after he collided with the Sagamore Hill windmill, "I wish you'd do your bleeding in the bathroom.")

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

The Federalist has been extolled as both a literary and political masterpiece. Theodore Roosevelt commented "that it is on the whole the greatest book" dealing with practical politics.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

It was that old mass yearning for a likeness in all things that troubled them, and him.

Peace, peace. So shall it soon be with all of us. It was a dream. It is. I am. You are. And shall we grieve over or hark back to dreams? (from My Brother Paul)

Jennie went about her work, but the impression persisted; his name ran in her mind. Lester Kane. And he was from Cincinnati.

The Mistake He left his pants upon a chair: She was a widow, so she said: But he was apprehended, bare, By one who rose up from the dead.

Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he's ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;

argued, with the inventive cunning that each of us possesses when a pet theory of ours is refuted by the evidence

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

There! you will think this a dreadfully preaching letter! I suppose I have a natural tendency to preach just at present because I am overwhelmed with my work.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling, the heart of the nation.