Wheeling Quotes - Page 2

• I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically: where is the free-wheeling debate on this question? Only one force can stop this mission: the will of the American people. They have not been asked. Do they want to endanger their loved ones, their industry with this launch? One force is more powerful than plutonium, the spirit of the American people united.

  Michio Kaku

  Powerful, Loss, Space

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• Even when you go up ramp, and you think about [Franklin D. Roosevelt] wheeling himself up, you know, got a little cigarette holder in his mouth, and it, that, that awe that you feel, that reverence that you feel for the place never entirely leaves.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Littles, Mouths

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Fire, Space

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Circles, Feet

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• I seem like a big bombastic outgoing dude, when it comes down to it with the ladies, when I was a single, free-wheeling dude, I was always very shy. It was difficult to form sentences with the girl of my dreams.

  Jack Black

  Girl, Dream, Shy

  "Gulliver's Travels - Jack Black interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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