"To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities."

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Source : Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

Nevil Shute

#Airplane Quotes #Danger Quotes #Triviality Quotes

“Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.”
“I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.”
“Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.”
“Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.”
“As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people who are willing to settle for less. I cannot even comprehend how people's desires can be small, ambitions narrow and limited, when the possibilities are endless”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.”
“It sucks when you read the script and you're like, "No, I liked that guy!" It's hard to read through the scripts sometimes, and just hope that people you like aren't gone. It scares you.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”

Source : "Méditations Poétiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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