Quotes About Adversity

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

We're not criminals. We're regular kids, like everybody else. Still, you probably don't want to mess with us . . . just to be on the safe side.

We are more than merely Lucian, Janus, Ekaterina, Tomas, and Madrigal. We are all Cahills, and we are under attack.

It had been a seven-year string of bad luck, ever since their parents died in that house fire.

This is an awful thing that's happened to you, but it's also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start. Don't

never underestimate the power of the forces stacked against you.

Which was still pretty ill.

Hard experience had taught her that the biggest danger often lay in those factors that could not be prepared for.

He could already hear the "You haven't even given it a chance yet" lecture, one of his mother's favorites. Then his father would deliver the crowning touch with "Life is what you make it." It was a devastating combination

I've actually started enjoying the Bath in a what-doesn't-kill-you-makes-you-stronger sort of way.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.

You can't break eggs without making an omelet, said Butler sententiously.

Yolculuk garip ?ey, bir kez ba?lad?n m? bitiremiyorsun. Alkolizm gibi bir ?ey.

Once she had an infected tooth that was getting progressively worse along a trip. Getting help was simply too dangerous, so she knocked out her top row of teeth with the handle of the gun she always carried. Now that's commitment.

Dan was in store for a ride bumpier than any game of Quidditch could ever be.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.

Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.

He had received already a larger dose of life than he had bargained for, and he was scared.

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]

No shots had been fired; we were alive; death had withdrawn perhaps as far as the next canal.

Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet.