Rick Yancey Quotes

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

To survive is to win.

I've always believed in survival.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Survival is triumph enough.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

The only way to survive is to get back up.

You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

We are powerful because we have survived

Simply to endure is to triumph.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.