"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."

-- Sally Ride

#Responsibility Quotes #Space Quotes #Special Quotes

“The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.”

Source : Rolling Stone, New York, February 8, 1990.
“A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.119, Shambhala Publications
“To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.”
“Being number two sucks.”
“If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
“Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.”
“Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.”

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