Svenns Aviation Quotes & Sayings

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses. — Bill Bruford

The longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies. — Baruch Spinoza

As individuals, we also are apt to use the canon as a cannon. We invoke the stripling warriors of Helaman and the iron rod of Lehi's vision to ground our own version of unflinching obedience. Or we invoke the lessons of the Liahona to support our more spontaneous and flexible approach to gospel living. In America, some Mormons find Jesus' ministry to the downtrodden and King Benjamin's words about withholding judgment but not relief from the beggar to be apt endorsement of their preferred political policies. At the other end of the spectrum, some invoke the war in heaven fought over agency and consider the Mormon ethic of self-reliance to be adequate support for a different political outlook. Or, sometimes individuals even employ the cannon against the canon, citing inconsistencies and imperfections in the record as grounds for nonbelief in the principle of inspiration, one's faith tradition, or even God. — Terryl L. Givens

I want to be your everything, but only while I'm here. If the day comes that I'm not, then let me go. Let me be your greatest memory. — Jewel E. Ann

That was Hera," Thalia grumbled. "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," said the goddess. "I will turn you into an aardvark, so help me - — Rick Riordan

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I? — Dustin Pedroia

If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos. — Richard Kadrey

People want you to fail. — Lady Gaga

Love is the essence of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't enjoy watching people fail, but I don't feel sorry for them when they fail crossing my path, that I love. — Behdad Sami