Lancershop Quotes & Sayings

Once you get cocky that's when you start to, A, turn into an asshole to everybody and, B, make mistakes because you stop listening to people or they stop telling you because you're a cocky asshole. So I'm going to try and eat my humble pie every morning for breakfast and just hope that it turns out OK. — Timothy Miller

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself. — Daniel Dennett

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs — C.S. Lewis

Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brustalising their fellows, and corrupted souls by every means. They call the motive for their actions: fame. Seeing these exhibitions I've longed to laugh, with the rest, but that strange imitation was impossible. Taking a penknife with a sharp-edged blade, I slit the flesh at the points joining the lips. For an instant I believed my aim was achieved. I saw in a mirror the mouth ruined at my own will! An error! Besides, the blood gushing freely from the two wounds prevented my distinguishing whether this really was the grin of others. But after some moments of comparison I saw quite clearly that my smile did not resemble that of humans: the fact is, I was not laughing. — Comte De Lautreamont

They inform them that an unidentified aircraft is not just heading toward the nation's capital, but rapidly approaching the P-56 prohibited airspace over the city — Paul W. Rea

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. — Maya Lin

One box, and it holds a whole life of love - almost every letter Carly and I have ever exchanged. Seeing it here, all together, three big bundles of paper...is that all we were? Dying pages, fading ink? — Dawn Kurtagich

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly. — Richard Bach

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free. — Anatole France

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work. — Nick Earls