Alfred Lansing Quotes

And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

Alfred Lansing

• Hope
• Entering
• Defenses

Of all their enemies - the cold, the ice, the sea - he feared none more than demoralization.

Alfred Lansing

• Enemies
• Feared
• Demoralization

In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

Alfred Lansing

• Sense
• Accomplishment
• Expedition

The rapidity with which one can completely change one’s ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.

Alfred Lansing

• Change
• Ideas
• Barbarism

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.

Alfred Lansing

• Writing
• Opinions
• Unprintable

Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.

Alfred Lansing

• Worse
• Idleness
• Amusements

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

Alfred Lansing

• Mood
• Characteristic
• Purposeful

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Alfred Lansing

• Heard
• Seen
• Reached

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

Alfred Lansing

• Hope
• Fail
• Odds