"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."

-- Cyril Falls

#Army Quotes #Air Quotes #Long Quotes

“I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.”
“For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.”
“Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?”
“Leadership belongs to all of us. I'm a big believer in John Maxwell, a leadership speaker and author, who talks about the 360-degree leader. Before leading others, you have to learn to lead yourself. Wherever you work in an organization you have to learn to lead up, lead down, and lead side to side. Leadership belongs to all of us. You have to see yourself, and believe in yourself in the way that we are talking about here to give to those that you lead.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.”
“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.”
“i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.”

Source : Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”
“Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.”

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