Airfields Supply Quotes & Sayings

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing. — Christian Nestell Bovee

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. — D.H. Lawrence

He laughed, but in the way people do who want to prove they get the joke. The Dutch do this a lot. They appear to live in terror of being mistaken for Germans, and to compensate by finding a funny side to life where none exists. Tell a Dutchman that your dog just died, and he will pretend that you have just made some impossibly witty remark. — Michael Lewis

You never know ... that's what makes life interesting. — James Clavell

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. — Paul Gallico

Your body is not a tragedy. It is the only one you get, no matter how much it may challenge, confound, frustrate, or thrill you, and fighting your body isn't worth the hurt and the divide. — Lesley Kinzel

I've done a bit of Latin in my time ... but I can control it. — Eddie Izzard

Maybe we just need to find the daring in the every day, he says, — Lauren Blakely

I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ~ Marianne Dashwood — Jane Austen

Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time? — Nancy Werlin

Being Mexican ... means being there for each other. It's togetherness, like a familia. We should be helping one another, cheering our friends on. — Guadalupe Garcia McCall

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny. — John F. Kennedy