"Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. Eleven! If he''s lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he''ll ever get to being a hero. Hell, I don''t know why anybody would want to be a Navy Diver. Now you report to this line, Cookie!"

-- Billy Sunday

#Military Quotes #Moving Quotes #Hero Quotes

“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

Source : Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93
“Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right.”

Source : Song: New Shoes, Album: These Streets, 2006
“The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.”
“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”
“I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.”
“It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.”
“I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.”
“Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!”

Source : Ada Cambridge (2015). “The Manor House: The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems”, p.192, Library of Alexandria

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