If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

I don’t know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that’s why that’s Blue Origin’s mission.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

A promise must never be broken.

Money often costs too much.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Joining McLaren didn’t add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Trust, but verify.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

When I’m up there, and I know the show’s coming to a close, in my head I’m saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That’s what I don’t like so much.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.