Gene Kranz Quotes
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.
Gene Kranz
Quotes to Explore
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee
It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
Zig Ziglar
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Pat Metheny
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
Gail Carriger
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
Adam Grant
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
Salman Khurshid
The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
Tammy Blanchard
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Hank Aaron
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali
You cannot run faster than a bullet.
Idi Amin
Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
Imogen Poots
I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
Imelda May
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
Nancy Pelosi
When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.
Karl Marx
Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.
Orson Scott Card
You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word 'Negro' is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.
Langston Hughes
He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
Anthony Trollope
'That narrow window, I expect, Serves but to let the dusk in - ' 'But please,' said I, 'to recollect 'Twas fashioned by an architect Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!'
Lewis Carroll
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
Martha Beck
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it deems sufficient. Indeed, it is the solemn duty of all of the members of the House in any impeachment case to exercise their judgment faithfully within the confines established by our Constitution.
Charles T. Canady
If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.
Cormac McCarthy
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.
Gene Kranz
