“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.” PeopleThinkingKindGuyTalkingImagineColdTruth IsWoundsBunchKillersHeartedSealsHeartlessToughnessBrainwashedMental ToughnessCold BloodedKind HeartedJovial Author:Howard E. Wasdin
“The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.” PeopleMenLongImagineColdMortalsRegionsImagine ThatMistakenSusceptible Book:The South Pole Source: The South Pole
“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.” WorldHardMovingDarkKnowledgeForeverClearImagineSeaColdMouthsHistoricalBreastsSaltSymbolism Book:Poems Source: Poems