Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés (página 14)

Isaac Asimov era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“Well, it was healthy to miss once in a while. It kept self-confidence balanced at a point safely short of arrogance.”

Fuente: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 20 “Where?” (p. 166)

“At least try to see my motives. Granted that I was foolish—criminally foolish—can’t you understand? Can’t you try not to hate me?”

She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”
Fuente: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 19 “Defeat!” (p. 163)

“Then why did you run? A man who runs needs no other accusation.”

Isaac Asimov libro The Currents of Space

“Is that so? Really?” cried Steen. “Well, I would run out of a burning building even if I had not set the fire myself.”
Fuente: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 16 “The Accused” (p. 163)

“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”

Isaac Asimov libro The Currents of Space

“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”
Fuente: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 14 “The Renegade” (p. 141)

“No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.”

Isaac Asimov libro The Currents of Space

Fuente: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 11 “The Captain” (p. 114)

“Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?”

Isaac Asimov libro Los límites de la Fundación

Pelorat said, “If you list it like that—”
“List it any way you please,” said Trevize. “I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.”
Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 14 “Forward!” section 1, p. 281

“[W]hen one plays for top prizes one must be prepared to pay top stakes.”

The Roman Empire (1967), p. 125
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