Bertrand Piccard Quotes
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
-
The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
-
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
-
Take good care of our fragile planet.
-
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
-
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
-
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
-
Are we not all desperate one way or another?
-
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
-
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
-
Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
-
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
-
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
-
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
-
I love to smile.
-
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
-
War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
-
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
-
My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.'
-
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
-
I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.
-
Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.
-
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
