"The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly."

#Airplane Quotes #Way Quotes

“The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.”
“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whetherâ€”to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revileâ€”there is a point to it all.”
“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”
“The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.”
“Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.”
“In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.”
“The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.”
“Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.”

You may also like:

Gordon Baxter
Author