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Welcome to these Parachute Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Parachute and Love.
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Cynical Life Human-Nature Psychology
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
The Answers of Spirit are far more powerful
than the Questions of our small minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Campaign behavior for wives:
Always be on time.
Do as little talking as humanly possible.
Lean back in the parade car
so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I look forward to these confrontations with the press
to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things
that come to me as president.
- Jimmy Carter
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Any man who wants to be president
is either an egomaniac or crazy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge,
that has ever been gathered at the White House -
with the possible exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy
We must make it clear that a platform
of "I hate gay men and women'
is not a way to become president of the United States.
- Jimmy Carter
I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President,
who happens also to be a Catholic.
- John F. Kennedy
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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