The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. Neil Armstrong
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt
