"From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldnâ€™t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition."

-- John Goddard

#Ambition Quotes #Animal Quotes #Boys Quotes

“For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.”
“My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.”

Source : Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.
“ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Virtue lives when Beauty dies.”
“There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.”
“Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

Source : "Schlock Mercenary" by Howard Tayler,
“Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.”
“I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”

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