"If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations."

-- Richard E. Byrd

#Trying Quotes #Done Quotes #Might Quotes

“How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.”
“...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.”

Source : Robert Neelly Bellah, Steven M. Tipton (2006). “The Robert Bellah Reader”, p.24, Duke University Press
“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.”
“If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.”
“Iâ€™d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman Iâ€™d even known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.”
“He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]”
“All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.”
“Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.”

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