John Wyndham citáty

„Osamělost vám odhalí, že jste pouhý atom, vydaný napospas nekonečnu, a neustále čeká na svou příležitost, aby vás vyděsila, strašlivě vyděsila - to je pravý záměr osamělosti, a to jí také nesmíte nikdy dovolit.“

„I nad celým oceánem rozlitého mléka dokážeme prolévat slzy pouze dočasně - má-li být život snesitelný, všechno mimořádné se musí stát všedním.“

„Ale lidská hloupost - a zvláště hloupost, které se v patách plíží strach - je snad bezmezná.“

“The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.”

“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”

“The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”

“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”

“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”

“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”

“There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.”

“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”

“The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.”

“And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”

“Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.”

“We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.”

“You can't drive a flock of sheep to market in a dead straight line, but there are ways of getting 'em there.”

“You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to.”

“There's a whole lot of people don't seem to understand that you have to talk to a man in his own language before he'll take you seriously.”

“She rummaged in a battered bag beside her, brought out a dirty spoon, and began to taste the beans as if they were one of the jams of paradise.”

“Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.”