Louis Zamperini Quotes

When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

Louis Zamperini

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• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • You
  • Something
  • Womanhood

• President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Progress
  • Diversity

• Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fun

• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Quality
  • Thoughts
  • Language

• I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • City
  • Excellence

• Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Self

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Government
  • Military

• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Light
  • Change

• I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Young

• You name him. I beat him.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • Name
  • Him

• It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wife

• We had 45 lakh cases pending from 2003–2004, to which 65 lakh new cases were added, making it more than one crore pending cases. After our initiatives, there are only 20 lakh pending court cases. Now my target is that by 2010, when Gujarat will complete 50 years, we will make it no-pendency. Cases will be disposed of in the very year they are filed.

  

  Narendra Modi

• Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Great
  • Free
  • Struggle

• The line 'because you're mine, I walk the line.' It kept coming to me, you know? But I was - I was … young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming to me. Because you're mine, I walk the line. And then the words just naturally flowed. It was an easy song to write.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Long
  • Song
  • Words

• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Fear

• Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • May

• Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

  

  William Zinsser
  • Numbers
  • Paper
  • Surprising

• What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.

  

  Arpad Busson

• The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.

  

  Jon Bellion
  • Singing
  • Picture

• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Different
  • Country
  • Done

• Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Self

• When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

  

  Louis Zamperini