Launching A Rocket Quotes & Sayings

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a rocket. War is a human activity far too large to be contained in the experience of a single reporter in a single place and time in any meaningful way. When it comes, it happens to everyone. Everything is in its path. Yet this is the allure of war reporting, the chance of acquiring some personal mother lode of truth to beam back to the living rooms of a waiting nation. The fear that comes from reporting on a war is as much a fear of missing this mother load as it is of being injured or killed in battle, and it sets reporters apart from the people who have to fight wars. Soldiers have their own agonies to think about as a battle approaches. Missing the war is not generally one of them. — John Hockenberry

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves. — St. Catherine Of Siena

You'd do a Highland husband proud, lass," he whispered. — Karen Marie Moning

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. — George Carlin

The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant commercial space facility in the country, ... This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico's spaceport is open for business. We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico's aerospace industry will become reality. — Bill Richardson

it can't be wrong, if it feels so wrong — Josh Stern

When we think about the kind of person we want others to remember us for being, it's much easier to work backward from our deaths — Craig Groeschel

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. — George Bernard Shaw

Do not presume global competitiveness from any feature of society in Silicon Valley, save those which are directly related to building great tech companies. — Anonymous

3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated? — Robert D. Kintigh

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? — Norman Rockwell

We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are. — Randy Neugebauer

Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians. — Donna Tartt

You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there. — Kenneth Frampton

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best. — Dean Koontz

And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn't do, or had to do, or failed to do — Anne Rice

Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know — Nikita Khrushchev

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing. — Jason Calacanis

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore. — Nicole Polizzi