Caseys Quotes & Sayings

Each force in flight is balanced by an opposing force. The opposite of lift is weight. Weight is always trying to pull an object back to earth, so to get something to stay up, lift has to be greater than weight. You'd think your weight would always be the same, but it isn't. When you do aerobatics or go into a dive - like a kite that's plunging into the sand at the beach - there's an increase in gravity, and that makes you weigh more. If you want your heavy kite to stay in the air, you have to increase the lift, as well. Maybe by waiting for a stronger wind. Maybe by finding a windier place to fly your kite. Maddie brought lift back into my life by forcing me outside. So did Bob, who introduced me to the editors of this magazine. So did Fernande, the chambermaid at the Paris Ritz, who gave me her daughter's clothes and made me get dressed and brought me coffee every morning for three weeks. — Elizabeth Wein

Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art. — Leo Tolstoy

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you. — Paul O'Brien

No country. is as harsh as the world. — Fernando Meirelles

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose. — Tim Duncan

The keen spirit
Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
Start into instant action, and at once
Plans and performs, resolves and executes! — Hannah More

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us. — Mary E. DeMuth

Look Upon Every Experience You've Ever Had ... as Having Been Sent to You for Your Benefit — Wayne Dyer

We doing a traffic stop?"
"Yeah. I have a reasonable suspicion that we're witnessing a violation of the law."
"Which law?"
"I'll decide later. — D.D. Barant

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow. — B.H. Liddell Hart