Beryl Markham Quotes
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.
Beryl Markham
Quotes to Explore
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
Kara Swisher
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch
When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
Adam Lambert
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich
I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
Flula Borg
I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
Karen Gillan
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Immanuel Kant
'Aye, build it on these banks,' the monarch said,'That when the autumn winds have swept the sea,They may come hither with their falling rains,A voice of mighty weeping o'er her grave.'
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
Fernando Pessoa
The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
J. M. Coetzee
I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.
Walt Whitman
Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
Antonio Porchia
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
Eric Berne
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Thomas Hobbes
