Walter Lord famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
-- Walter Lord

#Courage #Men #Odds
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
-- Walter Lord

#Birthday #Cake #Sagging
It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.
-- Walter Lord

#Funny Things #People #Today
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
-- Walter Lord

#Running #Intellectual #Premium
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
-- Walter Lord

#Writing #Dollars
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
-- Walter Lord

#People #Ordinary #Looks
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
-- Walter Lord

#Events #Guides
The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
-- Walter Lord
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
-- Walter Lord

#Nice #Hero #Character
There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
-- Walter Lord

#Couple #Thinking #Talking

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