"The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot."

-- Eddie Rickenbacker

#Eye Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.”
“Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2012). “Iron's Prophecy”, p.31, Harlequin
“You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.”
“The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.”
“The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.”
“The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.”
“Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may sayÂ it has never yet returned-you cannot say thatÂ it will not. It is blasphemy to say a bit of metal has destroyed life, just as it is presumptuous to say that because life has disappeared it has been destroyed. I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew-no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”

Source : Robert Leckie (2015). “Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]”, p.301, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.”

Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006

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