reach for the stars
A collection of quotes compiled by starbuck92.
Neither Here Nor There
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Lao-Tzu
"....there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That what can be imagined can be achieved. That you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone. And that, while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible."
Dana Scully, The X-Files - 'Max'
"There probably is no such thing as lasting peace, any more than a garden will ever cease to need weeding and watering. Storytellers and stories change, but the opportunity to do well or ill by others and ourselves will always be present. The right to choose how we coexist is ours unless we willingly surrender it. There can be no quick fix, no easy or permanent answer to the troubles of today or tomorrow. A sword is a sword, nothing more. Hope, compassion and wisdom born of experience are, for Middle-earth as for our world, the mightiest weapon at hand."
Viggo Mortensen, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion introduction
"One good thing about the Solos and the Skywalkers. We never run out of things to do."
Leia Organa Solo, Star Wars Fate of the Jedi: Backlash
Space Program
"The hardest part is justifying a long-term goal in a shortsighted world."
Andy Allen, Commander, STS-75 (regarding the future of the space program)
"We need to go back to the moon. All that is required is the will, and the courage, to do it."
Homer H. Hickam, Jr., retired NASA engineer
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
Heroism
"It is said that heroes are made by the challenges they confront, by the risks they take, and by the pain they endure."
Homer H. Hickam, Jr., author of "Back to the Moon" and "Rocket Boys"
"Everyone has an inner McKay, those uptight moments and those not quite heroic responses to situations. I know I do....McKay reacts the way I'd say about 90% of us would and all of us would like to be that other 10%."
David Hewlett, actor, Stargate Atlantis
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."
"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Flying
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
Leonardo da Vinci
"I think people who don't want to fly are crazy."
MAJ John Sheppard, Stargate Atlantis - 'Rising, part 1'
Space
"There is light and beauty up there that no shadow can touch."
Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Extended Edition
*gigglefit*
"The fact that I'm expected to obey the leadership of an overgrown teenager with a rank is perpetually mind-boggling to me." Dr. Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis: Casualties of War, regarding LTC John Sheppard
Neither Here Nor There
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Lao-Tzu
"....there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That what can be imagined can be achieved. That you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone. And that, while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible."
Dana Scully, The X-Files - 'Max'
"There probably is no such thing as lasting peace, any more than a garden will ever cease to need weeding and watering. Storytellers and stories change, but the opportunity to do well or ill by others and ourselves will always be present. The right to choose how we coexist is ours unless we willingly surrender it. There can be no quick fix, no easy or permanent answer to the troubles of today or tomorrow. A sword is a sword, nothing more. Hope, compassion and wisdom born of experience are, for Middle-earth as for our world, the mightiest weapon at hand."
Viggo Mortensen, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion introduction
"One good thing about the Solos and the Skywalkers. We never run out of things to do."
Leia Organa Solo, Star Wars Fate of the Jedi: Backlash
Space Program
"The hardest part is justifying a long-term goal in a shortsighted world."
Andy Allen, Commander, STS-75 (regarding the future of the space program)
"We need to go back to the moon. All that is required is the will, and the courage, to do it."
Homer H. Hickam, Jr., retired NASA engineer
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
Heroism
"It is said that heroes are made by the challenges they confront, by the risks they take, and by the pain they endure."
Homer H. Hickam, Jr., author of "Back to the Moon" and "Rocket Boys"
"Everyone has an inner McKay, those uptight moments and those not quite heroic responses to situations. I know I do....McKay reacts the way I'd say about 90% of us would and all of us would like to be that other 10%."
David Hewlett, actor, Stargate Atlantis
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."
"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Flying
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
Leonardo da Vinci
"I think people who don't want to fly are crazy."
MAJ John Sheppard, Stargate Atlantis - 'Rising, part 1'
Space
"There is light and beauty up there that no shadow can touch."
Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Extended Edition
*gigglefit*
"The fact that I'm expected to obey the leadership of an overgrown teenager with a rank is perpetually mind-boggling to me." Dr. Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis: Casualties of War, regarding LTC John Sheppard