Bob Hoover Quotes

If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.

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• I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Know
  • Horse
  • Racing

• It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.

  

  Louise Glück
  • Good
  • Past

• She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Children
  • School
  • She

• It's a big disappointment. They just jumped on us. Once we started to get into any type of groove offensively or defensively, it was too late.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Disappointment
  • Groove
  • Jumped

• We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.

  

  Austin Phelps
  • Reality
  • Christ
  • Necessity

• I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, "Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?" She said, "No, I hate myself now."

  

  Jack Roy
  • Love
  • She
  • Girl

• As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Music
  • School

• There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Vanity
  • Desecrate

• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hero
  • Tragedy
  • Virtues

• Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Thinking
  • Imagination

• Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Mathematics

• You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Resolve
  • Dilemma

• The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Ends
  • Fit
  • Fighter

• The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Purpose
  • Propaganda
  • Field Of Vision

• She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Object

• Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did.

  

  Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco
  • Chance
  • Cancer
  • Ocean

• The world is ending. This is your chance. Would you rather die here, or in a Jaeger?

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • World
  • Die
  • Chance

• A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Book
  • Garments

• Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Fashion
  • Stupid
  • King

• I happen to think that Hillary Clinton is a beacon of hope for younger girls, as was Barack Obama in other inspirational areas. We've now had an African American president, possibly a woman president, it's pretty cool. As far as she is concerned, whether man or woman, she is capable and experienced to be president.

  

  Alex Meneses
  • Hope
  • President
  • Hillary Clinton

• Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Writing
  • May
  • Aim

• If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.

  

  Bob Hoover
  • Forced
  • Crash
  • Landing