Quotes About Adversity

Little Libby Day just discovered her angle. Call it survival instinct, or call it what it was: greed.

Todos los tipos que había allí tenían el mismo aspecto, como si sus vidas fueran tan duras que habían borrado sus rasgos individuales

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas , I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas, I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.

La mayoría de las cosas buenas y hermosas son llevadas a cabo por mujeres menospreciadas por la mayoría.

Things may not be great, but things will be okay.

He doesn't get to win.

Jeez, wait, don't get bent out of shape." But I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong. It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue. I

Partia do princípio de que tudo de mau no mundo podia acontecer, porque tudo o que havia de mau no mundo já tinha acontecido. Mas, verdade seja dita, não eram ínfimas as hipóteses de me acontecer alguma coisa de mal depois de tudo o que já passara na vida? Não estava eu, Libby Day, a salvo?

Really, dude? How do you get through life without breaking something? Your mom wrap you in bubble wrap?

E perchè piace vincere, come mi piace vincere nel mio lavoro. Dimostrare che si può fare, che si può riuscire in qualcosa di utile anche quando sembra impossibile, quando le porte sembrano tutte chiuse. Accettare la sfida, misurarsi con le difficoltà.

There were, of course, no sanitary napkins, or even newspapers, and the girls used large leaves – burdock leaves if they could find them – to protect themselves. But any blood showing on a dress meant death; it was unaesthetic, and the SS were very keen on aesthetics.)

Life - hers and her family's - had become like a constantly twisting road and you never knew what fresh horrors might confront you around every bend; a road full of ruts and jolts. And sometimes you said you couldn't take any more jolts - but somehow you did. You took what came, and you took it with a stamina that you never imagined you possessed; but always you were tense, apprehensive, scared - wondering what was coming next.

Thunderheads with lightning swords aflash on their brows grumbled and pounded the badlands, reminding me that trouble was not far away.

Wyszed?em my?l?c, ?e ja i Kompania wdepn?li?my w to po uszy. K?opoty ze wszystkich stron. ?onglowali?my zbyt wielk? liczb? pi?ek naraz. Z tym, ?e nie by?y to pi?ki, lecz no?e o zatrutych ostrzach.

Jeste?my ofiarami w?asnej kompetencji. Zawsze wysy?a nas tam, gdzie zanosi si? na najci??sz? przepraw?. Wie, ?e poradzimy sobie jak nikt inny. Cholera i jeszcze raz cholera.

Glen Johnson

Me dijeron: — O te subes al carro o tendrás que empujarlo. Ni me subí ni lo empujé. Me senté en la cuneta y alrededor de mí, a su debido tiempo, brotaron las amapolas.

Nací para poeta o para muerto, escogí lo difícil —supervivo de todos los naufragios—, y sigo con mis versos, vivita y coleando. Nací para puta o payaso, escogí lo difícil —hacer reír a los clientes desahuciados—, y sigo con mis trucos, sacando una paloma del refajo. Nací para nada o soldado, y escogí lo difícil —no ser apenas nada en el tablado—, y sigo entre fusiles y pistolas sin mancharme las manos.

Cuando el mundo retrocede, la rima asoma. Cuando la vida aprieta, los versos repuntan.

La vida es una caca de vaca que hay que convertir en un pastel de manzana.

Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.

Sugar maple! Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. Are you all right? Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. Of course I'm all right! he managed, his words slurred. You think a little insect can stop me ? Reagan was unconvinced. I don't know, Dad. She brained you with a baseball bat! Hockey stick, Dan corrected. Those could be your last words, brat–

I've been victimized but that doesn't mean I have to be a victim.