Lansing Quotes & Sayings

In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do. — Alfred Lansing

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself. — Thomas Lansing Masson

He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive. — Alfred Lansing

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. — Thomas Lansing Masson

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas. — Thomas Lansing Masson

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone. — Thomas Lansing Masson

The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas ... and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful. — Alfred Lansing

In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting. — Alfred Lansing

A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids. — Thomas Lansing Masson

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made. — Sherry Lansing

Think of what would happen to us ... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. — Thomas Lansing Masson

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable — Alfred Lansing

America, secure in its fortress of neutrality, watched the war at a remove and found it all unfathomable. Undersecretary of State Robert Lansing, number two man in the State Department, tried to put this phenomenon into words in a private memorandum. "It is difficult, if not impossible, for us here in the United States to appreciate in all its fullness the great European War," he wrote. "We have come to read almost with indifference of vast military operations, of battle lines extending for hundreds of miles, of the thousands of dying men, of the millions suffering all manner of privation, of the wide-spread waste and destruction." The nation had become inured to it all, he wrote. "The slaughter of a thousand men between the trenches in northern France or of another thousand on a foundering cruiser has become commonplace. We read the headlines in the newspapers and let it go at that. The details have lost their interest. — Erik Larson

It was only two months after Tunde, her ex-love interest, suddenly moved to North Carolina, against her wishes, when she met Amiel at a gas station in Lansing. — Jessica N. Watkins

Shackleton's unwillingness to succumb to the demands of everyday life & his insatiable excitement w/ unrealistic ventures left him open to the accusation of being basically immature & irresponsible. & very possibly he was-by conventional standards. But the great leaders of historical record-the Napoleons, the Nelsons, the Alexanders-have rarely fitted any conventional mold, & it is perhaps an injustice to evaluate them in ordinary terms. There can be little doubt that Shackleton, in this way, was an extraordinary leader of men. — Alfred Lansing

But Zimmermann surprised him. On Friday, March 2, during a press conference, Zimmermann himself confirmed that he had sent the telegram. "By admitting the truth," Lansing wrote, "he blundered in a most astounding manner for a man engaged in international intrigue. Of course the message itself was a stupid piece of business, but admitting it was far worse. — Erik Larson

A mind is as strong as its weakest think. — Thomas Lansing Masson

No brain is stronger than its weakest think. — Thomas Lansing Masson

Of all their enemies
the cold, the ice, the sea
he feared none more than demoralization. — Alfred Lansing

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist. — Thomas Lansing Masson

Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of
physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated. — Alfred Lansing

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids. — Robert Lansing

In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That — Os Guinness

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me. — Robert Lansing

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe - and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The — Alfred Lansing

The precision metallic ratcheting sound a Glock 9mm makes when a bullet is forced out of the gun's clip into the killing chamber is a universal sound that good guys and bad guys and wild animals alike understand on a primal level. - The Devil's Necktie — John Lansing

In all the world there is no desolation more complete than the polar night. It is a return to the Ice Age - no warmth, no life, no movement. Only those who have experienced it can fully appreciate what it means to be without the sun day after day and week after week. Few men unaccustomed to it can fight off its effects altogether, and it has driven some men mad. — Alfred Lansing

The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back. — Sherry Lansing

Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another. — Thomas Lansing Masson

I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives. — Sherry Lansing

It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it — Alfred Lansing

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth. — Thomas Lansing Masson

Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us. — Alfred Lansing

You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself. — Thomas Lansing Masson

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. — Robert Lansing

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. — Alfred Lansing