Quotes About Endurance

David Baldacci

DB. What finally got

Eleanor, love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

Tyler. The boy immediately broke out into

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." — J. R. R. Tolkien

Shots around the knee region, however, reduced the toughest men to screaming babies. Rogers

David Baldacci

David Baldacci

you ran when it was fifty degrees below zero, your lungs would hemorrhage and you'd drown in your own engorged corpuscles.

tersely. Then the line

again. "And maybe there's something a lot stronger and

texted each of them. He waited, waited, waited. Then

David Baldacci

ocean surf beat on relentlessly

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

You cannot get off the treadmill simply by running faster. All you can do by that mechanism is temporarily pass others, until they respond by running faster too, with the long-term consequence of having the whole field increase their speed just to stand still. The victor in such a race is not the runner, but the treadmill.

Since there was absolutely nothing he could do about his circumstances, chewing on them would only leave a sour taste in his mouth.

Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself

That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero.

There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.

Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is.... True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care--with no one there to see or cheer.

The drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether.

Gentlemen- by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is. Such endurance is, as it happens, the distillate of what is, today, in this world neither you nor I have made, heroism. Heroism