Robert Quotes

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am. — Robert Plant

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. — Robert Breault

Whatever the Dark One wants, I oppose, so hear this and know it true. Before I let the Dark One have you, I will destroy you myself. — Robert Jordan

You can't legislate sobriety. — Robert Zemeckis

When you see commented-out code, delete it! — Robert C. Martin

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust. — Robert C. Solomon

Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing. — Robert Jordan

One smile relieves a heart that grieves. — Robert Graves

Leadership is a dare - and the dare is, 'Are you willing to show up?' — Robert Holden

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week. — Robert Reed

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. — Robert Allen

To all those women
strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you. — Robert Fanney

No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening. — Robert Creeley

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. — Robert Wyatt

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant — Robert Louis Stevenson

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate — Robert Graves

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine. — Robert Lynd

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything. — Robert Breault

Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together. — Robert Browning

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment. — Robert Genn

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie

Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part. — Robert Ryan

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. — Robert Harris

... if you don't know who you are, it's kind of tough to know what you want ... — Robert J. Crane

It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything. — Robert S. Kaplan

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know. — Robert Browning

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. — Robert Payne

When i wake up mornings alone it is more disturbing, when i imagine it could be the living things, that are going out of my life. — Robert Adamson

Short-term trading is very time-consuming. That is why even "successful" short-term traders can easily have negative real ROI. — Robert Rolih

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin. — David Copperfield

I never learned to read girls. I guess I'm girl-illiterate. — Robert Schell

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people. — Robert Hilburn

Humor is the pensiveness of wit. — Robert Aris Willmott

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. — Robert Vaughn

Destroy the
fear in you
before the
fear destroys
the life
before you. — Robert M. Drake

Better to face the bear than run from it. — Robert Jordan

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget. — Robert Bly

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know. — Robert Downey Jr.

The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. — Robert A. Johnson

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff. — Robert Hunter

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place? — Robert Frost

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. — Robert Englund

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds. — Robert Griffin III

Storytelling has a narcotic power. — Robert Harris

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on. — Robert Kiyosaki

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it. — Robert Downey Jr.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? — Robert Breault

Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids. — Robert Ressler

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. — Robert A. Heinlein

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free. — Robert Breault

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. — Michael Morpurgo

Interactive Decision Theory would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory. — Robert Aumann

It's the clothes that make them think you're not really there. — Robert M. Pirsig

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? — Robert Moses

The big thing is I try not to repeat. — Robert Barry

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don't ask if he needs help. You just follow! — Robert Jordan

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else — Robert Kiyosaki

If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?
- David King — Robert Liparulo

In the end, the only safe place to put a Trojan horse is outside your walls. — Robert Harris

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. — Robert Greene

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself. — Robert Black

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously. — Robert Knepper

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. — Robert M. Pirsig

Customer-centricity should be about delivering value for customers that will eventually create value for the company. — Robert G. Thompson

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. — Robert Brault

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service. — Robert A. Heinlein

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. — Robert A. Heinlein

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson

I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there. — Robert Griffin III

It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done. — Robert Jordan

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. — Robert Reich

You think I've been around these fuckers long enough to get comfortable enough to SLEEP ten feet away from them? Not fucking likely. (Axel) — Robert Kirkman

He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it. — Robert Frost

If you want to be rich, think big, think differently. — Robert Kiyosaki

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. — Robert Louis Stevenson

My work should be seen as poetry. — Robert Wilson

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event. — Robert M. Pirsig

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. — Robert Dallek

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor. — Robert Mitchum

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention. — Robert Irwin

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. — Robert Smith

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. — Robert E.Lee

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. — Robert Todd Carroll

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star. — Jason Robert Brown

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste. — Robert A. Heinlein

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. — Robert Bourassa

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson

it signals the body to increase — Robert Rodgers

I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again." — Robert Downey Jr.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties. — Robert Breault

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment. — Robert E. Quinn

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt. — Robert Kirkman