Aviation Pioneers Quotes & Sayings

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.
- The Evil Eye — Mary Shelley

He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom. — Theresa Whistler

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day. — George Eliot

I'd rather be vindictive than smart. (Solin) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. — Theodore Robinson

Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space. — Eddie Rickenbacker

As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher. — Henry Ward Beecher

It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else. — Vironika Tugaleva

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world. — Brock Yates

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It felt like waiting for something to happen. Which has to be the worth part of being young. So many of your decisions aren't yours; they're made by other people. Sometimes they're made badly by other people. Sometimes they're made by other people who have no idea what the consequences of those decisions might be. The bastards. — Patrick Ness

America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. — Rand Paul