Jay Gould Robber Baron Quotes & Sayings

We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world ... a hostile sky. As you look up the sky looks beautiful but hostile. As you sit here you realize that Man will never conquer space. He will learn to live with it, but he will never conquer it. Can see for over 400 miles. Beneath me I can see the clouds ... They are beautiful ... looking through my mirror the sky is absolutely black. Void of anything ... I can see the beautiful blue of the sky and above that it goes into a deep, deep, dark, indescribable blue which no artist can ever duplicate. It's fantastic. — Joseph Kittinger

You can only blame your problems on the world for so long
Before it all becomes the same old song — Fall Out Boy

The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such a wonderful gamble. You didn't know what was going to happen to you. That was what made being a woman so exciting. No worry about what you should be or do - Biology would decide. You were waiting for The Man, and when the man came, he would change your entire life, you can say what you like, that is an exciting point of view to hold at the threshold of life. — Agatha Christie

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it. — Joyce Carol Oates

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. — Terry Pratchett

But before he left, Matthew drew his wife aside and whispered, "Why do they have holes in their dresses?"
"I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation," she whispered back, and pressed a fleeting kiss on his jaw. — Lisa Kleypas

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory. — George Muller

Not to us, LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness. — Anonymous