Quotes About Adversity

Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia

Un judío sigue siendo judío, con o sin piernas

is perhaps difficult to imagine so creative a mind working without a single work of lexicographical reference beside him, other than Mr. Cooper's crib (which Mrs. Cooper once threw into the fire, prompting the great man to begin all over again) and Mr. Wilson's little manual, but that was the condition under which his particular genius was compelled to flourish.

Oh, it was easy to be a soldier, it was much less easy to become a man again.

Pure, mi vergogno di lamentarmi. Quando si è avuta questa grande cosa che sento dentro di me, inalterabile, si può sopportare tutto il resto. L'essenza della mia gioia non è alla mercè delle circostanze esterne, per raggiungerla occorrerebbe una difficoltà proveniente direttamente da lui o da me stessa.

A woman on her own they think they can do anything how despicable people are when you're down they stamp on you. I kick back I keep my end up but a woman alone is spat on.

If the error is thrust deeply enough into the soul, man cannot but succumb to it.

It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

You could not have wished to be born at a better time than this, when everything is lost.

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Sandy, you have to stumble every so often; have to learn by making mistakes.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Carol

The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.

I decided to leave here. Stern resolution. Grasp the world. Then I found that the Village Virus had me, absolute.

I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-wisps of the imagination.

We can pass the eight Dreadnoughts, if we are sure of the eight Shackleton's.

I am killed them quick, but they are killing me slow. [Jim Browner in 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box']

Huge blocks of ice, weighing many tons, were lifted into the air and tossed aside as other masses rose beneath them. We were helpless intruders in a strange world, our lives dependent upon the play of grim elementary forces that made a mock of our puny efforts.

Deep seemed the valleys when we lay between the reeling seas.