Dan Mordarski > Dan's Quotes

“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There was even a trace of mild exhilaration in their attitude. At least, they had a clear-cut task ahead of them. The nine months of indecision, of speculation about what might happen, of aimless drifting with the pack were over. Now they simply had to get themselves out, however appallingly difficult that might be.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

“But we are in the hands of a Higher Power, and puny mortals that we are, can do nothing to help ourselves against these colossal forces of nature.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

“We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily:1 “when there’s anybody worth talking to.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

“Instead, life was reckoned in periods of a few hours, or possibly only a few minutes—an endless succession of trials leading to deliverance from the particular hell of the moment.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage