"If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life."

--

Source : "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.

Gus Grissom

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #Risk Quotes

“In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.”
“When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2013). “The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.”, p.74, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“People in misery is what most important in art.”
“The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.”
“Pressure is only what you make of it and what you put on yourself.”
“Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.”

Source : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (War Comes to the Cheyenne)". Book by Dee Brown (pp. 86-87), 1970.
“The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.”
“Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you.”

You may also like:

Alan Shepard
United States Naval Aviator
Deke Slayton
Astronaut
Edward Higgins White
Astronaut
Gordon Cooper
Astronaut
Jim Lovell
Astronaut
John Glenn
Former United States Senator
Roger B. Chaffee
Astronaut
Scott Carpenter
Astronaut
Wally Schirra
Aviator