Events Quote by Thomas Paine

He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.

— Annie Dillard

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what…

— Theodore Dreiser

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

— Libba Bray

He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop…

— Paul Auster

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the…

— Clifford D. Simak

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the…

— Orison Swett Marden

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit…

— Loudon Wainwright III

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at…

— Jonathan Tropper

“He adored telling this story of near disaster and how he had triumphed, just as he relished the report of how he went on…

— Walter Terry

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

— William Herschel

“No, there is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for…

— Orison Swett Marden