Quotes About Resilience

By that time I would have been chewing on a railroad spike if I had had one, and Wolfe was working hard trying to be serene. Between nine-thirty and ten-thirty he made four trips to the bookshelves, trying different ones, setting a record.

He was like the mule in the story that kept running into trees; he wasn't blind, he was just so mad he didn't give a damn.

But if and when I find myself up a tree with a circle of man-eating tigers crouching on the ground below, and a squad of beavers starting to gnaw at the trunk of the tree, the sight of Saul approaching would be absolutely beautiful. I have never seen him fazed.

I can dodge folly without backing into fear. - Nero Wolfe in "The Doorbell Rang

But he wouldn't find me in the office, sitting there like patience in the hoosegow.

I discovered that I was shivering, decided to stop, and did.

but I knew from long experience that you never knew when you were going to run up against someone with as many feet as a centipede and all of them reluctant.

To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to.

Just because they aren't with us doesn't mean we don't have parents anymore.

We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.

One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

A good friend can shield you from the storm.

The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea.

The mind remembers what the soul can bear.

We will continue to march, even if everything shatters, because today Germany hears us, and tomorrow, the whole world. And because of the Great War, the world lies in ruins, but devil may care, we build it up again.

It was so much easier to knock down than build up: a city raised over millennia could be razed in a day; the life of a man ended in a second's crack. In years to come, Edmund and his children would know the names of planes and tanks and battles and invasions and recall with facility the atrocities of the age, the names of those who committed them. But would any of them be able to name a single repairer of the breach or fixer of broken walls?

Lewis could feel something swelling inside him, at his sinuses and in his chest. He had worked hard to keep this ghost at bay, but now it was pressing in, coming to claim its dues. The tears were coming, and he had to swallow to hold them. He stood up.

On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant doll's houses.