"Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends."

-- Michael J. Massimino

#Regret Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.”
“What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.”
“Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.”

Source : Michael Faraday, Frank A. J. L. James (1996). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1841-December 1848, letters 1334-2145”, Iet
“Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.”
“Some among the European elite have sought out confrontation with us. As a consequence, we won't help Europe, although we could do so when it comes to the refugee question. A joint closure of borders would be essential. In this regard, the Russians would be 10 times more effective than the Europeans.”
“Navigators have had a huge impact in my life; I gave my life to Christ in college and the witness of The Navigators and their dynamic materials have provided a great foundation for my Christian life. As the founder of FOCUS, The Navigator staff has been a great resource to me and to my staff as we too seek to reach a generation of young leaders with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.”

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