Quotes from Michael Stephen Fuchs

hope is not a strategy.

Alpha's response to the armed conflict was nearly inevitable, and Henno knew it as the old rule for winning pub brawls: don't bluff, don't threaten, definitely don't shove or escalate. But when you know it's going to kick off, you just turn the knob all the way to the right – the pint glass to the face, the knee to the groin, the headbutt that crushes the nose. Maximum violence, instantly.

Hey! I'm still fuckin' this monkey. She's just here to take pictures.

Defeat is never fatal. Victory is never final. It is the courage to continue that counts." – Sir Winston Churchill

Just do your job, keep learning every day, perform at your peak and to the outside edge of your limits, never complain, and always be first to support your teammates. Do that and you'll be fine.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Churchill quote – "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

Tough. Deal with it. Adapt and overcome.

Because he knew it was always what you chose to do right now that mattered. And you always had a choice.

Nobody rides for free, motherfuckers!

You two are more fucked up than a one-legged cat trying to bury shit in a frozen pond.

O-karada o daiji ni," Ali said quietly, kissing Pope on the cheek as she passed him by. A beautiful Japanese phrase, it meant "take care of yourself." But, literally translated, it was "your body is precious.

And he knew that if you could not adapt and overcome, then you were totally hosed. Because conditions were always going to change on you. These days, probably for the worse.

We all drift on the same raft. There is only one question. What sort of shipwrecked man shall I be?

But it's because our time is limited that life is so precious, so beautiful. And what matters is what we do in the time we've got.

And like the skydiver with the faulty chute, he had the entire rest of his life to figure this out and get good at it.

Two is one; one is none.

God must have leaned down out of heaven and kissed her on the forehead at birth.

Some sorrows were not open to outside intervention or comfort. Just as some brotherhoods were beyond the reckoning of people outside of them.

Some sorrows were not open to outside intervention or comfort. Just as some brotherhoods were beyond the reckoning of people outside of them. Some tragedies couldn't be made okay, not by words, and not by anything else either.

there was a word for a triumph over impossible odds: a miracle.

Come, eat your food with joy and drink your wine with a glad heart … enjoy life with the woman you love, through all the fleeting life which God has given you in this world…

Which was a reminder that you didn't want faith getting in the way of tactical considerations. But, at a certain point, faith, however groundless, however forlorn, can be all you've got left.

Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding onto.