"As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk."

-- Deke Slayton

#Weather Quotes #Feet Quotes #Three Quotes

“On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.”
“So the storm passed and every one was happy.”
“Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.”
“It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.”
“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return”
“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”
“There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?”

Source : Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.34, Library of Alexandria
“What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?”

Source : "On Canaan’s Side". Book by Sebastian Barry, July 22, 2011.

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