Alfred Lansing Quotes

#1. It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#2. This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe - and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The

Alfred Lansing

#3. In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting.

Alfred Lansing

#4. Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.

Alfred Lansing

#5. Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Philip Gibbs

#7. It will all end very badly, Gus

John Kennedy Toole

#8. You have to know the past to understand the present.

Carl Sagan

#9. It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it

Alfred Lansing

#10. That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

Robin Hobb

#11. In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

Alfred Lansing

#12. President Kennedy stocked up on Cuban Cigars just before signing the embargo.

Hank Bracker

#13. All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Daniel Boone

#14. Of all their enemies
the cold, the ice, the sea
he feared none more than demoralization.

Alfred Lansing

#15. When you can't win the fight, you get bigger guns."

- Episode 14, "Better Space Than Never

Ashley Poston

#16. The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas ... and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.

Alfred Lansing

#17. ... anything to avoid the uncomfortable nearness of strangers

David Arnold

#18. I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

Alfred Lansing

#19. No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

Alfred Lansing

#20. As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the signs, this can help us understand who we really are.

Sebastian Pole

#21. He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

Alfred Lansing

#22. We watched the rest of the movie without talking. When it was over, Bran said, I love you."
I said, " I know." Adam nudged me with his shoulder, and I laughed. "I love you, too.

Patricia Briggs