Quotes About Adversity

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

He's got courage, Alex said. Courage! Raoul bellowed. That coward almost kills him and--

If you have to hit--hit low.

Face it, Gary told her kindly. You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.' 'Or until he kills you,' someone else said. 'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.

Gods curse it, Kel, you heard what he said! I heard a fart, Kel said grimly. You know where those come from. Let it go. -Faleron and Kel

He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he's done.

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

People with a good life would defend it more vigorously than people who were beaten down by their masters and their fates.

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us—to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

The gods like to make a man feel unprepared, so the wisewoment say

Dreadful events lead people to do extraordinary things

All she had was herself. It would have to do.

You don't know what you can do till you're tested.

Tananarive Due

no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.

I will pay you in trouble and terror.

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

Where were you and your God when he had me down in the snow-what return must I give you for that?

Susina had made her own way. Judging by the courtyard and the house and the wine, a primrose path indeed. And if Hellfire was at the end of it, then so it was for many others.

There was a lesson in here somewhere, he was sure. Or maybe he'd offended some ancient, pre-Columbian god while he'd been in South America -because this was a test.

All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up. Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.