Quotes About Resilience

Later he would declare that "not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.

James D. Bradley

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

ESCORT CARRIERS HAD MANY nicknames, only a few tinged with anything resembling affection: jeep carriers, Woolworth flattops, Kaiser coffins, one-torpedo ships. Wags in the fleet deadpanned that the acronym CVE stood for the escort carrier's three most salient characteristics: combustible, vulnerable, expendable. That most everyone seemed to get the joke—laughing in that grim, nervous way—was probably the surest sign that it was rooted in truth.

Archer kept his course toward the battleship. He opened his bomb bay doors for show, hoping to persuade the dreadnought to veer from its course. Then, as he began to pull up over the ship, Archer rolled his Avenger over on its back and took his .38-caliber service revolver from its holster. Running on anger born of pain and not a little adrenaline, he squeezed the trigger repeatedly, sending six rounds into the dark superstructure of the battleship.

So many men were dead, yet the ship itself continued to live, as if animated by its own force of will.

The victory at Leyte Gulf was the product of Allied planning, savvy, and panache, to be sure. But only Samar showed the world something else: how Americans handle having their backs pushed to the wall.

As Herman Wouk wrote in War and Remembrance, 'The vision of Sprague's three destroyers--the Johnston, the Hoel, and the Hermann--charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita's battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don't have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.

You can even be slow or have a disability, its better to fail and mess up, in the beginning, to get to the success that you have been avoiding your lifetime

Embrace the suck

James Dale Davidson

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.

I can still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this much pain." Thomas shrugged, "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

And you, Tommy" the boy said, lowering his voice. "You've got a lot of nerve coming here and asking me to leave with you. A lot of bloody nerve. The sight of you makes me sick

Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?

Shuck it," Minho responded. "I'm tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this pain." Thomas shrugged. "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

Scared. That's good. A fine soldier is always scared. Makes you normal. It's how you respond to it that makes or breaks you.

Can't take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can't give up. Ever.

Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.

Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there — maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury — had been truly awful.

Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows. "You met our new friend?" Miho responded, a smirk flashing across his face. "Real piece of work, this guy. I gotta get me one of those shuck suits. Fancy stuff." "Am I awake?" Thomas asked. "You're awake. Now eat—you look horrible. Almost as bad as Rat Man over there, reading his book.

What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.