High Altitude Military Parachuting/halo

Famous quotes containing the words high, altitude, military and/or halo:

    “It is high time we realized that the havoc wrought in human life and ideals by a technological revolution and too long ignored has caught up with us.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)