“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?” YearsLooksTermSpaceRiskDoorsDyingSafetyMilesFlyingFlightPlanesAirlinePassengersSpace ShuttleFatality Author:Burt Rutan
“Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.” ShouldMindWarWholeFactsSpiritualityDifferencesChurchDoorsDyingFieldsPicksNotionObstaclesBonesAgencyToiletsCritiqueGod ImageStripesOrganisedColonelsOpened DoorsOrganised Religion Author:Alan Moore
“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.” ShouldWellsSaidWisdomAsksEasyDoorsDyingMouthsTasksGoldenStreamsProphetBoresSupplies Book:The Poems Source: The Poems
“In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.” KindHomeWaitingForeverDoorsDyingReturnThis LifeTidyNew Home Author:Jean Little
“Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying!” HeartHouseForeverDoorsAirDyingCryTownsLegsLocksSwansTiresome Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.” PeopleLastsDeathDoorsDyingDiedBreathsLongingMansionsDeserted Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.” MindHeartPersonsDoorsDyingTestsSettlingTrue NatureVeracity Author:Joan Halifax