"A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion."

--

Source : "Struggle: The Life and Exploits of Commander Richard E. Byrd". Book by Charles John Vincent Murphy, 1928.

Richard E. Byrd

#Hero Quotes #Progress Quotes #Static Quotes

“I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.”
“Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?”
“The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.”
“But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !”
“Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.”
“Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.”

Source : Enid Blyton (2013). “The Mystery of the Hidden House”, p.68, Egmont UK
“I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.”
“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.”

You may also like:

Charles Lindbergh
Aviator
Douglas Mawson
Geologist
Ernest Shackleton
Explorer
James Forrestal
Former United States Secretary of Defense
Lincoln Ellsworth
Roald Amundsen
Explorer
Robert Byrd
Former United States Senator
Robert Falcon Scott
Explorer
Robert Peary
Explorer