quotes about Serials

“Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.”

“To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort”

Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

“Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.”

“When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.”

“Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.”

“I don't know why we aren't scoring as we're keeping clean sheets.”

“The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Source : First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

“I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care”

“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”

“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.”