Parachutes Quotes - Page 2

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  Sally Ride

  Loss, Suits, Way

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• When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

  Matthew Parris

  War, Exercise, White

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• You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila Bair. [She] has taken eight percent of the deposits in the United States and seamlessly moved those over to sound institutions which in turn have gotten more capital, ended up, it's been a magnificent job.She'll never get a golden parachute or any severance pay or anything. She's done a great job. We've got some great public servants. We have I think the right people in there to get the job done, and then they need more tools.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Success, Travel, Adventure

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• The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Order, Mind, Firsts

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• If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Long, Safe, Enormous

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• I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

  Robin Wasserman

  Writing, Jumping, Way

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• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  Yves Rossy

  Fall, Airplane, Flying

  "I Can Fly" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

  Grady Booch

  Needs, Inheritance, Multiple

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• At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Smell, Feet

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• If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

  Dan Poynter

  Safe, Skydiving, Waiver

  Dan Poynter (1997). “Expert Witness Handbook: Tips and Techniques for the Litigation Consultant”, Para Pub

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• I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

  Cathy Rigby

  Hurt, Parent, Bed

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• I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Night, Jumping

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• Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Mind, Function

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• If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

  Steve Harvey

  Successful, Safe, Want

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• O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Lonely, Fall, Heart

  Delmore Schwartz, “All Night, All Night”

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• Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Adventure, Men

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• I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open.

  Rickson Gracie

  Mma, Mind, Ifs

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• Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him. "Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually. "Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor." Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. "Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Voice, Mentor

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• You may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Military, Mean, Mad

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Doors, Stories, Problem

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2568, Delacorte Press

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• I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

  Scott Raab

  Mom, Want, Tough

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Taken, Risk, Age

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• I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Running, Careers, Office

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• Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

  Cory Lidle

  Ninety Nine, Air, Land

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