Quotes by Robert Falcon Scott - Page 1

Great God! This is an awful place.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Antarctica
Awful
Witty
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Each man in his way is a treasure.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Men
Treasure
Way
Each Man
His Way
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Winners are born, Champions are made.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Champion
Softball
Winner
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To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Conditions
Waiting
Worst
Wait
Idly
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Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Ocean
Freezing
Sea
Slowly But Surely
Slowly
Surely
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The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Dog
Moments
Training
Day
Even
For The Day
Hour
Moment
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With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Care
Dog
Might
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Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Engaged
Fancy
Sides
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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Cheer
Ends
Good Cheer
Near
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But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Comfort
Not Afraid
World
Die
Afraid
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I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Conclusion
Pleasant
Regions
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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Dog
Empty
Empty Stomach
Fierce
Hunger
Reality
Stomach
Makes
Realities
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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Dog
Driving
Faces
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I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Patience
Imagination
Long
Trying
Waiting
Few Things
Wasted
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We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Englishmen
Fighting
Die
Bold
Showing
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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Journey
Done
Records
Shot
Bolt
Longest
Pole
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It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
People
Thinking
Writing
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We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Causes
Mountain Climbers
Risk
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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Behinds
Gentleman
Regret
Gentlemen
Pole
Shall
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It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Improvement
Judging
Law
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Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Boys
Games
School
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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Demand
Dog
Inability
Training
Foresee
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I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Done
Great Success
March
May
Success Great Done
Explorer
Near
Proved
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As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Barren
Looks
Sometimes
Surface
Beneath
Exists
Immediately
Pack
Realise
Teeming
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I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Destiny
Hands
Vision
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The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Dreary
Effort
March
Camp
Diary
Longs
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Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Life
Discovery
Light
Suppose
Obstacle
Threatens
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We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Pity
Sake
Seems
God Look People
Course
Getting
Far
Our People
Stick
Shall
Weaker
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But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Appeals
Country
Countrymen
Enterprise
Giving
Honour
Our Lives
Willing
Appeal
Cared
Depend
Properly
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Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Courage
Endurance
Heart
Notes
Rough
Should
Had
Bodies
Lived
Dead
Companions
Englishman
Must
Stirred
Tale
Tell
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We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Death
Journey
Difficult
Endure
Englishmen
Fortitude
My Own
Regret
Sake
Weak
Writing
Hardships
Help
In The Past
Meet
Shown
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I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Past
Regret
Writing
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Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Decision
Return
Voting
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Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.
Robert Falcon Scott / Explorer
Country
Heart
Rich Countries
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