Nathan Farragut Twining famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.
-- Nathan Farragut Twining

#Military #Real #Men
This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
-- Nathan Farragut Twining

#Real #Flying #Visionaries
If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.
-- Nathan Farragut Twining

#Goal #Finest #Used
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.
-- Nathan Farragut Twining

#War #Fall #Two

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Nathan Farragut Twining famous quotes

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