Landing Quotes

• Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

  Charles Douglas Jackson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where it doesn’t belong. The fine line between the two is in your own deeper sense. It is in your actual knowing within that deeper sense.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Two, Knowing

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• The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, Matter, Voyages

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

  Sarah Dessen

  Loving Someone, Leap Of Faith, Facts

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.

  Ayala Malakh-Pines

  Love, Fall, Flying

  Ayala Malakh-Pines (2005). “Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose”, p.78, Taylor & Francis

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• If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

  Terry McMillan

  Terrible, Conclusion, Ifs

  Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.412, Penguin

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• Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Being Yourself, Loneliness, Opposites

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• You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Heart, Eye, Understanding

  Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

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• I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.

  Duane G. Carey

  Views, Earth, Looking Forward

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• Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my skin, disappearing beneath the neckline of my shirt. His eyes followed the raindrop, and I began to quiver on the inside.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Rain, Eye, Hair

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

  Charles Yu

  Confused, Fall, Climbing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.63, Vintage

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• Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

  John Green

  Hipster, Fall, Thinking

  John Green, David Levithan (2012). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.217, Penguin UK

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• Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Arrogance, Want

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.304, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the development of mankind itself seems to stagnate on stone age level.

  Sigmund Jahn

  Men, Space, Age

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• Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

  Bokar Rinpoche

  Love, Compassion, Bird

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• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

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• Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

  Robert G. Allen

  Fall, Safe, Down And

  Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2005). “Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth”, Harmony

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Journey, Together, Crowds

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

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• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Nature

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• I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

  Neil Young

  Water, Gold, Records

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• Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Ted Shackelford

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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• A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

  Charles Dance

  Romantic, Men, Stills

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• I dont care to be involved in the crash-landing unless I can be in on the take-off.

  Harold Stassen

  I Dont Care, Crash, Involved

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• I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches

  Sergei Bubka

  Cost, Pay, Vaults

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