John Herschel Glenn Jr Famous Quotes
"Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation."
"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."
John Herschel Glenn Jr Quotations
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."
Hans Albrecht Bethe
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H L Mencken
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
William Shakespeare
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Bill Watterson
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'"
Martin Luther King Jr
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
Johann von Goethe
"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe."
Lydia Sigourney
"For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever."
Laura Swenson
"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
Albert Einstein