"Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't"

-- Wernher von Braun

#Moon Quotes #Astronaut Quotes

“Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.”
“One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.”
“Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.”
“The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.”

Source : Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32
“Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!”
“Treat the world the way you want to be treated.”
“The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 66), 2006.
“What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.”

Source : "Blue Highways". Book by William Least Heat-Moon, 1982.

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