""Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?""

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Source : Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

Gavin Lyall

#Men Quotes #Wings Quotes #Risk Quotes

“[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.”
“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.”
“You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes the only option is to leave because you're emotions get so entangled with these manipulative people that staying there you're just helpless because they're good at passive aggressive games and you're not, so you have to leave.”
“There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.”
“Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.”
“Nice Site! http://google.com”
“Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal.”

Source : "Cultures aren't equal". townhall.com. August 8, 2005.
“We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?”

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