"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."

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Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.418, OUP Oxford

Robert Falcon Scott

#Journey Quotes #Records Quotes #Done Quotes

“Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.”
“In the end I would rather wonder than know”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.101, Wave Books
“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime”
“There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!”
“One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.”

Source : National Observer, April 05, 1965.
“Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.”
“Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas!”
“I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.”

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