"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."

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Source : Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

Charles Lindbergh

#Lying Quotes #Real Quotes #Airplane Quotes

“He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.”
“"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"”
“Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.”
“Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.”
“The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.”
“In #â€Ž France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.”
“The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.”
“You can never have too many friends.”

Source : "James Garner: A Lawyer Reflects on the Actor's Legal Legacy (Guest Column)" by Neville Johnson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 23, 2014.

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