Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)
“There is danger in deep water, and danger is more real than beauty in a boy’s mind.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 50, section 2 (p. 661)
“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”
XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Source: John Mayer: Battle Studies
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Karl Popper book Conjectures and Refutations
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963), p. 485
“Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”
Henry Summers (1911–2005) British civil servant
"A Spell for Midnight"