Airline Pilot Retirement Quotes

#1. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#2. Hours trickle by, and I wilt. The magic isn't here for me tonight. I can't get away from the heavy feeling of being me. I want to blend in, to be someone besides myself, someone who is part of something secret and subversive and exciting.

Bethany Griffin

#3. Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it ... we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.

David C.H. Austin

#4. I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

Jane Roberts

#5. Simplicity and serenity are close friends of minimalism.

Karen Alexander

#6. It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

Elton John

#7. if the past is any indicator of our future, today's big bets won't seem so wild in a few years' time.

Eric Schmidt

#8. At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Charles Darwin