Undesignated Seaman Quotes & Sayings

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier. — Jaleigh Johnson

Complications, usually lead to more complications; ...and if you continue to complicate things, you might end up dead in the Hospital, ...due to, Complications!! — Sean Dunne

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters. — Winston Churchill

As long as you want me, I'll be here. Right at your side. — Nicole Williams

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. — Kumi Naidoo

I like B. Wooster the way he is. Lay off him, I say. Don't try to change him, or you may lose the flavour. Even when we were merely affianced, I recalled, this woman had dashed the mystery thriller from my hand, instructing me to read instead a perfectly frightful thing by a bird called Tolstoy. At the thought of what horrors might ensue after the clergyman had done his stuff and she had a legal right to bring my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave, the imagination boggled. It was a subdued and apprehensive Bertram Wooster who some moments later reached for the hat and light overcoat and went off to the Savoy to shove food into the Trotters. The — P.G. Wodehouse

I love my music and recording people. — Edwyn Collins

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. — George Eliot

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it. — Vance Havner

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. — Francoise Bertaut De Motteville

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Visualize the conversations your friends have about how they all knew you'd never be able to make it. Imagine having to explain quitting to every single person who knew you were going to BUD/S. You have to face them. You have to live with many of them. Imagine trying to find a way to overcome the shame of failing. How long is it going to take for them to stop thinking of you as a failure, a quitter, a pussy? How long until anyone takes anything you say seriously again? Visualize being sent to a crappy ship, an undesignated Seaman. Imagine, if you will, a life below deck where you spend 18 hours chipping paint and repainting the spot you chipped. Imagine not seeing the sun for days or weeks at a time. This picture is worse than anything in BUD/S. Experience the shame and humiliation of quitting once in your head. Feel how much you hate yourself for giving up on your dream. Then never, ever, ever experience it in real life. — Mark Owens

There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. — Norman Granz