Top 28 Laurence Gonzales Quotes
#1. In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a young police officer named Pat McCann, who happened to be training at the airport that day, saw a man who had managed to get the upper half of his body through his window before the lower half was incinerated inside the plane.
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#3. The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it's not what's in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It's not even what's in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it's what's in your heart.
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#5. He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail.
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#6. The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
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#7. Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.
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#9. Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. You're going to die when you're supposed to die.
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#10. We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
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#11. I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.
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#12. To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason.
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#13. What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its heart, to embrace. It was a hug. A hug good-bye.
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#14. We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.
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#16. As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. "He tried to sit up," Martz said. "I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was on the way, but it was too late for him.
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#18. He listened to a fire fighter tell of a woman he had found strapped into her seat, screaming. When he cut the seat belt, she fell apart. She was being held together by the seat belt. She died at his feet.
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#19. To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.
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#20. Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
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#21. With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.
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#22. To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.
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#24. To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.
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#26. I am constantly surrounded by a display of natural wonders ... It is beauty surrounded by ugly fear. I write in my log that it's a view of heaven from a seat in hell. (survivor after 53 days at sea)
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#27. The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.
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#28. Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
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