“You yahoos have it too easy. When I joined the Mounted Police, all the equipment we got was a paper bag and a pointed stick. We used the paper bag to boil tea. The stick was for killing game. And if you lost either one, son, you got charged with it.”--[Bill Carter, “sourdough” Peace River trapper in How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier.]
“Go, take thine angle, and with practiced line,/Light as the gossamer, the current sweep;/And if thou fail in the calm still deep,/In the rough eddy may a prize be thine.”--[Thomas Doubleday, 1826.]
“The difference between those who could have done and those who did, is that those who did, did.”--[Keith Larson, Professional Radio Broadcaster on NewsTalk 1110 AM, WBT, possibly quoting someone else.]
“I get upset when I hear our news commentators shouting to the rooftops that the day the Towers fell, life changed forever. Excuse me? Maybe for the unfortunates murdered by those cowards, and their families, and for the generation that has had everything handed to them on a silver plate. But for the rest of us, it only confirmed what we already knew: That our world is, and always has been, a very dangerous place.”--[“Red” Meinecke, small arms expert on the aftermath of 9/11/2001, <i>The Backwoodsman</i>, May-June, 2002.]
“You have called down the thunder. Hell is coming, and we’re coming with it.”--[From the movie Tombstone.]
“When I see the city--no, I don‘t feel how small I am--but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.”--[Gail Wynand, in the novel, The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.]
“It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.”-- [John Wayne]
“How unhappy is that poor man who loses his liberty!…No degree of material comfort, no consciousness of correct behavior can balance that hateful degradation of imprisonment. Before I had been an hour in captivity I resolved to escape.”-- [Sir Winston Churchill describing his captivity by the Boers in South Africa.]
“I never knowed 'bout no slave uprisin's. They had to uprose wid rocks an' red clods. The black man couldn't shoot. He had no guns. The slaves had so much work they didn't know how to have a uprisin'. The better you be to your master, the better he treat you. The white preachers teach that in the church.”--[Cal Woods in Bullwhip Days.]
"Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival."--[W. Edwards Deming, Consultant, Statistician, and Educator (1900 C.E.--1993 C.E.)]
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