Fateful Stars Quotes & Sayings

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound. — Buzz Aldrin

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. — Ambrose Bierce

The authorities should have taken a different approach. Imagine if it had been the far-right British National Party (BNP) growing on campus. Suppose that it was racism, instead of Islamism, spreading throughout the student population and the BNP had decided to stand in Student Union elections. If that had happened, and the BNP had taken over, the college would have acted immediately. They certainly would have seen the need for a solution, if only for their own reputation and the impact on admissions. They would have cited the college constitution about how hate speech was not allowed, how the BNP was an external political group attempting to hijack the college, and probably stopped them. But because of the religious element in our message, and the desire of the authorities not to offend our religious sensitivities, we were left alone. — Maajid Nawaz

We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars. — Antal Szerb

Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it. — Eric Schmidt

There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse. — Cormac McCarthy

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication. — Norman Cousins

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. — Siri Hustvedt