Quotes About Adversity

I had finally come to the point where I was catching the momentum but then I had torn my ACL, which is kind of the story of my life where I keep getting injured from an ACL.

I've landed on my shoulders a lot of times, and separated them and stretched the capsule. I've torn my ACL in my right knee; that took me out for an entire season.

I just know that on TV or off TV, I've been very much targeted and torn apart.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

There is little you can do to stop a tornado, a hurricane, or a cancer diagnosis from changing your life in an instant.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

After divorcing, I left South Africa to live in Toronto. They were tough years. On my own with three young children and no income. I'd cry when they spilt milk because I didn't have the money to buy any more.

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

About two years into living in Toronto, my apartment burned to the ground. My husband and I ended up living in his grandparents' attic for a year and a half.

Me getting cut from Toronto that first year, definitely helped with the ego. It was deflating. Some people either quit or some people get hungry.

Seeing the news on 'FOX Sports Live' of yet another baseball player on crutches always reminds me of the September night in 2005 when I tore my Achilles tendon in Toronto.

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

At 15, 16, life is being tossed at you.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.