“… I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.”
Source: Life Expectancy
Contact with Space (1957)
Context: On March 20, 1956, 10 P. M. a thought of a very remote possibility entered my mind, which I fear will never leave me again. Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women? Are my children offspring of the first interplanetary race? Has the melting-pot of interplanetary society already been created on our own planet, as the melting-pot of all earth nations was established in the U. S. A. 190 years ago? … What inspired this thought? It was seeing the science-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, about a spaceman who comes to Earth in a flying saucer to save us from self-destruction in a nuclear war. … All through the film I had a distinct impression that it was a bit of "my story" which was depicted there, even the actor's expressions and looks reminded me and others of myself as I had appeared 15 to 20 years ago.
“… I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.”
Source: Life Expectancy
“My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
[Gulley, Bill, Breaking Cover, 1980, Simon and Schuster, 0671245481, 21, 25]
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
ibid, p 92
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)
Aussitôt qu'une pensée vraie est entrée dans notre esprit, elle jette une lumière qui nous fait voir une foule d'autres objets que nous n'apercevions pas auparavant.
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards.