114th Military Quotes & Sayings

N every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me. I'm overpowered by its scale. It's so vast and so far away that my own insignificance becomes palpable. But I don't feel rejected by the sky. I'm a part of it - tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. And when I concentrate in the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty out aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us. — Carl Sagan

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do and what you want to be, and don't be afraid to pay the price to get it. — Anonymous

The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious
that is, a disease not understood
in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured. — Susan Sontag

It is not the law, and not the book, not the knowledge of what is right, that works obedience, but the personal influence of God and His living fellowship. And even so it is not the knowledge of what God has promised, but the presence of God Himself as the Promiser, that awakens faith and trust in prayer. — Andrew Murray

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret. — Ted Williams

Nullius in verba was the Royal Society's motto. Don't take anyone's word for it. — James Gleick

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. — Hannah More

...like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts... — Ronald Everett Capps

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. — Josef Albers