Planche A Voile Quotes

#1. My father for teaching me the grace of power unused, and mother for teaching me the joy of power used well.

Pierce Brown

#2. Tiny concerns as well as large worries distract us from ourselves, hindering the peace of mind we all aspire to, whether we know it or not.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty.

Jan Cox Speas

#4. Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness.

Elizabeth Chandler

#5. Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.

David Hoffman

#6. We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

Dalai Lama

#7. Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

Paulo Coelho

#8. My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

Michael Caine

#9. The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Whatever it is that you know, or that you don't know, tell me about it. We can exchange tirades. The comma is my favorite piece of punctuation and I've got all night.

Rasmenia Massoud

#11. Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#12. I've never known any distress that an hour's reading didn't relieve.

Montesquieu

#13. One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.

Jesse Barfield

#14. Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard