Isaac Asimov Quotes

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

The mechanical arts are of ambiguous use, serving as well for hurt as for remedy.

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

it is a perfect weapon

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

We will not be caught in no man's land.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.