Quotes About Parachute

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

Wörter meine Fallschirme mit euch springe ich ab Ich fürchte nicht die Tiefe wer euch richtig öffnet schwebt

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

Any shoes with heels that high should come with their own safety net. Or a parachute.

I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this how all plans developed, unknown to their maker until he wove for himself a parachute, or else melted into air?

The reason why most people don't reach their destination is that they are so afraid to fall that they open their parachute before they jump from the sky.

I waited for the last few seconds to deploy my nanobots into a parachute form, braking with an abruptness that would have killed an unmodified human body. Fortunately, I don't have an unmodified human body.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

Suddenly, out of the mist came a parachute with a fresh Hershey chocolate bar from America. It took me a week to eat that candy bar. I hid it day and night. The chocolate was wonderful, but it wasn't the chocolate that was most important. What it meant was that someone in America cared. That parachute was something more important than candy. It represented hope. Hope that someday we would be free. Without hope the soul dies.

Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.