Quotes About Chanute

#1. By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.

Wilbur Wright

#2. Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

H.G.Wells

#3. Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

Randy Wayne White

#4. Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

Christine Milne

#5. The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.

Octave Chanute

#6. My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

Safra A. Catz

#7. Part of the reason why I want to write these books is to make everybody realize that we're all fantastic.

Sara Alexi in interview with Dario Ciriello

Sara Alexi

#8. For doing so, and who prefer certainties to doubts. Join with those who are open and not afraid to be vulnerable: they understand that people can only improve once they start looking at what their fellows are doing, not in order to judge them, but to admire them for their dedication and courage.

Paulo Coelho

#9. People have shapes.All we do and say and think and believe cuts outlines around us like a jigsaw.And sometimes, you run into a person who seems to fit right beside you in the picture.Someone who sticks out where you dent in and zigs where you zag.

Ben Stephenson

#10. I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

Octave Chanute

#11. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

Bertrand Russell

#12. We learn from every experience to be wise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight. - Stephanie Plum

Janet Evanovich

#14. There's and entire world outside these bleak pages, one full of SUNRISES and KITTY-CATS and late-night BURRITO RUNS and the horrible, creaking amble of us all towards DEATH. It is to that world that I am afraid I must release you to now.

David Malki

#15. All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

Octave Chanute

#16. Sharing oft leaves less.
But with love the more we share,
the fuller our hearts.

J. Benson

#17. If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Octave Chanute