27 Quotes by Jack Williamson

You can put art experiences in different parts of the community where people who are shopping can take a break or explore an adjacent historical neighborhood unique to the city.

The humanoids protect people so well they won't let them drive a car lest they have an accident or let a woman hold a needle lest she stab herself, ... With the Patriot Act, people are trying to overprotect us by taking our freedoms away. I'd repeal it if I could.

We’re never quite so powerful as we feel, in this free state,” she whispered in the rushing wind. “Because our usual bodies are left behind, and our moving mind complexes can draw only upon the chance energies that they happen to grasp from the atoms of the air or other substances we possess, by the linkage of probability. All our power lies in that control of probability, and we must strike where it will serve.

The trouble began when the first witch was hounded and stoned to death, by the first savage man. It will go on till the last witch is dead. Always, everywhere, men must follow that old Biblical law: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

I fancy that the spirit of old Tom Hossie, wise with age and vastly weary of the labor and troublous delights of life, hungered and thirsted for death.

I’m a strict materialist – but the police are brutal materialists.

Wendre had appealed to Horn as no woman ever had. She had a man’s mind and a woman’s heart. She was self-reliant, proud, courageous. She grasped the situation quickly, accepted the odds, and did what had to be done without complaining. This was no spoiled child of empire, no sheltered darling of an all-powerful father; this was a woman fit to stand and fight beside any barbarian from the restless marches, made for love and ready to battle for it.

And there would come up from the sea its voice; and the sea has no voice, but mysteriously touches the strings within the soul of a man, so that the soul speaks in its own way, each soul lifting its peculiar message.

Your danger is something other than death, and uglier. Because she will try to change you – to arouse something in you that should never be awakened.