Jim Lovell Quotes

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

Jim Lovell

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• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
  • University
  • Received

• The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Know
  • Chance
  • Same

• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Nature

• We have to tokenize in order to normalize.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Order

• I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Man
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Crazy
  • End
  • Communication

• The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• You must know what you are capable of.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • You
  • Know
  • Capable

• 'Villain' is such a harsh word.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Word
  • Villain
  • Harsh

• What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Company

• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • World
  • Joy
  • Acting

• We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Law
  • Abuse

• I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility

• I myself have proved it to be of no small use, when in bed in the dark, to recall in fancy the external details of forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by subtle speculation; and this is certainly an admirable exercise, and useful for impressing things on the memory.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Small
  • Dark
  • Exercise

• Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Story
  • Changes
  • Listen

• If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

  

  Ken Jennings
  • Time
  • Single
  • Car

• The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Justice
  • Fight
  • Strength

• Listen, you don't know any better so I'll just tell you. You can't try to save money by not having the right beer. You know, you can skip having medical insurance, you can buy everything you own at a swap meet but the right beer is what makes living like this possible.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Money
  • Insurance
  • Beer

• ... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Happiness
  • Silence
  • Voice

• I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

  

  Jim Lovell