Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

I am just going outside and may be some time. Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12. ~ Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

Should this be found I want these facts recorded. Oates' last thoughts were of his Mother, but immediately before he took pride in thinking that his regiment would be pleased with the bold way in which he met his death. We can testify to his bravery. He has borne intense suffering for weeks without complaint, and to the very last was able and willing to discuss outside subjects. He did not - would not - give up hope to the very end. He was a brave soul. This was the end. He slept through the night before last, hoping not to wake; but he woke in the morning - yesterday. It was blowing a blizzard. He said, 'I am just going outside and may be some time.' He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

Winners are born, Champions are made. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe. ~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard

We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

Great God! This is an awful place. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

The eternal silence of the great white desert. Cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from the south, pale yellow wraiths, heralding the coming storm, blotting out one by one the sharp-cut lines of the land. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

To wait idly is the worst of conditions. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

God help us, we can't keep up this pulling, that is certain. Amongst ourselves we are unendingly cheerful, but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

Resignation to misfortune is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It seems undeserved where plans were well laid and so nearly crowned with a first success. I cannot see that any plan would be altered if it were to do again, the margin for bad weather was ample according to all experience and this stormy December - our finest month - is a thing that the most cautious organiser might not have been prepared to encounter. It is very evil to lie here in a wet sleeping-bag and think of the pity of it all. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing. ~ Robert Falcon Scott

A corpse was merely an empty vessel for the spirit it had housed. "The soul," he'd said one night by a campfire in the Valley of the Kings, "is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free. When my time comes, let my soul soar into the wind and the sky. Wherever its natural home is meant to be, that's where it will go. ~ Robert Masello

792. Thief.-- N. thief, robber, homo trium literarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist.

spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark, land-shark, falcon, moss-trooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones; buccan-eer, -ier; piqu-, pick-eerer; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee, wrecker, picaroon; smuggler, poacher, plunderer, racketeer.

highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, knight of the road, foodpad, sturdy beggar; abductor, kidnapper.

cut-, pick-purse; pick-pocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card-, skittle-sharper; crook; thimble-rigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter; Autolycus, Cacus, Barabbas, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shop-lifter.

swindler, peculator; forger, coiner, counterfeiter, shoful; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.

burglar, housebreaker; cracks-, mags-man; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, Raffles, cat burglar.

[Roget's Thesaurus, 1941 Revision] ~ Peter Mark Roget

Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life. ~ Madeleine Brent

I use job interviews for two things. First, to recruit people. Second, to get some help with my work. I give job candidates problems I can't ~ Robert I. Sutton

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything. ~ Robert D. Richardson

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The House of Saud had executed Juhayman. Now they were making his program government policy. ~ Robert Lacey

Two months after marching through Boston,
half the regiment was dead;
at the dedication,
William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe.
Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
Its Colonel is as lean
as a compass-needle.
He has an angry wrenlike vigilance,
a greyhound's gently tautness;
he seems to wince at pleasure,
and suffocate for privacy.
He is out of bounds now. He rejoices in man's lovely,
peculiar power to choose life and die
when he leads his black soldiers to death,
he cannot bend his back. ~ Robert Lowell

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. ~ Robert Genn

I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own? ~ Francis Scott Key

How I love the first snow ... unbroken and white, before it's ruined by footprints. ~ Scott Snyder

I am told by my toad, Treacle, that Pangur Ban is the true lord of Wychwoode and a great friend of Gwydion. Has the cat not told you this himself yet? ~ Robert Carter

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves. ~ Robert D. Hales

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. ~ Richard G. Scott

So, there was this beautiful princess.
She was locked in a high tower( ... )She was stuck up there( ... )So the only thing was to jump. ~ Scott Westerfeld

He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him. ~ Robert Jordan

Min, you're a friend," he protested. "I don't think of you as a woman." It was the wrong thing to say; he knew it as soon as the words left his mouth. ~ Robert Jordan

But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let younger minds, still limber, take over. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

I stepped through the doors of the SA Café with a borrowed copy of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot in my hand, expecting to find more of the same, only to find Philip K. Dick sitting at a table, obsessing over Gnostic demiurges and ersatz realities, Robert A. Heinlein across from him, spouting libertarian aphorisms but paying for Dick's coffee. ~ Hal Duncan

And yet ... And yet it was not the same. It could never be the same again. In the last thirty minutes, Josh's carefully ordered world had shifted and altered irrevocably. He was a normal high school sophomore, not too brilliant, but not stupid either. He played football, sang - badly - in his friend's band, had a few girls he was interested in, but no real girlfriend yet. He played the occasional computer game, preferred first person shooters like Quake and Doom and Unreal Tournament, couldn't handle the driving games and got lost in Myst. He loved The Simpsons and could quote chunks of episodes by heart, really liked Shrek, though he'd never admit it, thought the new Batman was all right and that X-Men was excellent. He even liked the new Superman, despite what other people said. Josh was ordinary. ~ Michael Scott

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Apple controls the licensing. It's their trademark. ~ Scott Erickson

Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times - for all the right reasons - but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions. ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

But my social circle had dwindled. Hell, all I had was a social dot - just me on a one man continuum. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson

I don't think that I would ever do serenade to be romantic. You have to have so much balls to do that. ~ Robert Pattinson

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings. ~ Charles Robert Maturin

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. ~ Robert Runcie

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Jokes are funny only in context. There is no such thing as abstract clever word play. Words have meaning in the world in which we live, not in the abstract. Take away the politics, and there is no joke. The joke wouldn't make any sense. if the joke is funny, it's funny precisely because it's racist and sexist. ~ Robert Jensen

I feel comfortable with either digital or film - the director and the project should determine the course of choice. ~ Robert Richardson

The past was the past. Let it be. Forgive the mistakes everybody made. And keep on dreaming. ~ Scott Monk

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper. ~ Robert Ingpen

At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain - as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work. ~ Robert Jay Lifton

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. ~ Robert Orben

For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas. ~ Scott Bakula

Since the family is the irreducible core unit of cities or any other political order, one may say the same thing of marriage: it was established to render justice, to give each his due - in this case, what is due between husband and wife in the inimitably unique relationship that they form. Owing to the exceptional complementarity and procreative potential of a husband and a wife, the legal form for their relationship is likewise distinctive, and not replicable for other relationships that are neither complementary nor potentially reproductive. ~ Robert R. Reilly