Top 17 Quotes About Douglas Bader
#1. When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.
Robyn Davidson
#2. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
Ani DiFranco
#3. I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.
Douglas Bader
#4. I'm sorry, I will not change what I am or pretend to be something else just so that you will like me. Why? Because I don't want to wake up one day and realize that everyone likes me...except me!
Brooke Hampton
#5. I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.
Douglas Bader
#6. One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir
#7. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
Mary Baker Eddy
#8. The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
Douglas Bader
#9. Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.
Douglas Bader
#10. Pause and remember - You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change.
Jennifer Young
#11. I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me
Douglas Bader
#12. When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.
Bud Harris
#13. It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already.
Umberto Eco
#14. The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
Douglas Bader
#16. I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
Douglas Bader
#17. We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Douglas Bader
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