General James Gavin Quotes & Sayings

When two or more of their lighthuggers met, they would compare and update their respective nomenclature tables. If the first ship had assigned names to a group of worlds and their associated geographical features, and the second ship had no current entries for those bodies, it was usual for the second ship to amend its database with the new names. They might be flagged as provisional, unless a third ship confirmed that they were still unallocated. — Alastair Reynolds

To preserve the silence within
amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens
no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky. — Dag Hammarskjold

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies. — Sasha Grey

The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction ... One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death. — Erwin McManus

She stood naked on the edge of a cliff, towering over a gray ocean, waves crashing below as wind whistled through the forest behind her. The only source of light was the moon, its rippling reflection littering the sea with diamonds. — B.C. Burgess

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. — John James Audubon

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth! — Mother Jones

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions. — Ludwig Von Mises

I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future. — Roshani Chokshi

You're an addiction...my obsession... — Sylvia Day

Some prospects for success seems bleak but are not with hard work — Sunday Adelaja

I realized that I love him pure and simple. It's not a matter of logic or function. It's a matter of my heart. — T.J. Klune

We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens. — Fatima Bhutto