Douglas Bader Quotes

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.

I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly yellow, and suddenly he was brighter, and brighter, and i asked him what was happening, what was wrong. I remember only that light, so strong it spilled across my shoulders, and lit up his face, and how scared he looked as something big and loud hit my door, sending glass shattering across me, little sparks catching the light like diamonds, as they fell, with me, into the dark.

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me. I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process. I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can't feel anything else. Every thought I have condenses into that heartbeat, moving at the same rhythm. "Yes, I do," he says.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Virtually everything is dangerous if you are afraid.

During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she asked tremulously, "are we in great danger?" "Don't worry, madam," he answered, "after all, we in the hands of God." "Oh," she gasped, terror written on her face, "is it as bad as that?"