Quotes About Resilience

Sept. 11, 2001, still feels like a blur to me. I wish it were simply a bad, re-occurring dream, but unfortunately it isn't.

I always believe that if you stick with quality and give people a chance at the time, that people eventually get on board with it. It's been my experience more than not. Once in a while, there's a show that you just can't seem to break through on.

It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

Bob Dole is not a bitter man. That part is jarring. His life was hard.

Not everybody is like Bobby Robson, going on forever.

I have one of those bodies that is just a little more injury-prone.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

It's easy to forget how powerful our bodies actually are.

I have the track label on me. I'm the track guy. So I have to go above and beyond the expectations of what other people will limit their bodies to.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

Being bold and standing our ground is important, and making sure you don't allow people to run all over you.

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the industry, I didn't know the language, and I didn't know how to dance. So, whatever films I was getting, I was just taking them up.

Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

When bombing is going on, you see a lot of people screaming around you and you can't do anything if you're small. You just want to break out of that and be strong.

When those four bombs fell, I was in the middle and I should have died.

I'm not really Bond girl material, and that's fine by me. I'm a grafter; I'm not a star.

I tore ligaments in my shoulder completely off the bone.

I have little bones.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

I think I have very strong bones.

I never got a lead role and I make no bones about it.

I know how to make a little bonfire, fight off some coyotes, or whatever we got to do.