Lilienthal David Quotes

#1. Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

David Lilienthal

#2. Life is not a dream to be dreamed but a story to be written.

Debasish Mridha

#3. The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

David Lilienthal

#4. The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Daniel Hannan

#5. The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

David Lilienthal

#6. You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good.

Terry Zwigoff

#7. There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

James Frey

#8. Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

David Lilienthal

#9. Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

Roger Lowenstein

#10. My dad dedicated his life to getting across the wildlife message, and I love that I can carry on his legacy. I want to make sure his message never dies.

Bindi Irwin

#11. It must not remain our desire only to acquire the art of the bird," Lilienthal had written. "It is our duty not to rest until we have attained a perfect scientific conception of the problem of flight.

David McCullough

#12. Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

David Lilienthal

#13. You look amazing."
"Thank you. You look pretty good." Understatement.
"Oh this old thing? Shucks," he said.
"Dork."
"Goddess.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#14. We keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.'

David Lilienthal

#15. It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.

David Lilienthal

#16. Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.

David Lilienthal