"I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission."

-- Leroy Chiao

#Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.”
“A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.”

Source : George Crabbe (1855). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.57
“If you never miss a plane, youâ€™re spending too much time at the airport.”
“If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.”

Source : Speech in New York, 12 October 1915, in 'Works', Memorial edition (1925) vol. 20, p. 457
“There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.”
“Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.”

Source : Alexander Berkman, Jewish Anarchist Federation (1929). “Now and after: the A B C of communist anarchism”
“Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.”
“I knew this friendship with myself couldnâ€™t last forever.”

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