Gene Roddenberry Famous Quotes



Time is the fire in which we burn.

"A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away."

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.


Gene Roddenberry Quotations






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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.
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Chinese Proverb

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Thomas Paine

"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them."
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Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion."
William Cullen Bryant

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever."
John Piper

"How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol How about the pillow It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak."
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