55th Wing Quotes & Sayings

Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it. — Debasish Mridha

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve. — The Kinks

Now nearly all the mysteries have gone, and there is scarcely an unknown country left to peer at.) — Jan Morris

If one single invention was necessary to make this larger mechanism operative for constructive tasks as well as for coercion, it was probably the invention of writing. This method of translating speech into graphic record not merely made it possible to transmit impulses and messages throughout the system, but to fix accountability when written orders were not carried out. Accountability and the written word both went along historically with the control of large numbers; and it is no accident that the earliest uses of writing were not to convey ideas, religious or otherwise, but to keep temple records of grain, cattle, pottery, fabricated goods, stored and disbursed. This happened early, for a pre-dynastic Narmer mace in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford records the taking of 120,000 prisoners, 400,000 oxen, and 1,422,000 goats. The arithmetical reckoning was an even greater feat than the capture. — Lewis Mumford

That's two full days away. Maybe, if I'm not dead by then, I can still take Sophie. — Leslea Wahl

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power. — Scott Adams

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. — Lord Byron

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden. — Ann Widdecombe

Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved. — Tana French