Quotes About Adversity

Damn him. Damn everything. Why is it all so goddamned hard?

My father's a large man, very strong, but he says fighting is for people who can't win with their brains. He also says there are times when you've got no choice but to defend yourself from common morons.

to a perfectly terrible day.

Aldous Huxley. 'Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune.' You think about that.

subsisting mostly on Popsicles and so-called

This is the worst year of my life, and it's only the seventeenth of January.

Lower your sights, boy,' he said to Joe Winder. 'I agree, justice is probably out of the question. But we can damn sure ruin their day.

The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.

When it gets complicated, that's usually because the world is complicated—or because we're complicated. When we shy away from it because it seems too difficult (or because we've been taught so poorly), we surrender the ability to take charge of our future. We are disenfranchised. Our self-confidence erodes.

We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path what will take us to the stars - unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.

a contact sport like football.

a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

A fire smokes the most when you start pouring water on it.

Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!

The carrion birds have tried to peck out my eyes and my tongue and my mind, but they've never been able to get at my heart.

Sabes cuál es la mayor victoria de una gata sobre un tejado de zinc caliente? Resistir en él todo el tiempo que le sea posible, hasta el último segundo.

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep going.

A single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

But, honey, you know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul.

We never know what we can be or do until the need is there and we are tested by it.

you don't know what you can or can't do until you are forced to find out.

We are not always properly equipped to face the difficulties life places in our path.

His world was a confusing and treacherously shifting ground, and he did not see that he had any better way to deal with it than simply to keep marching on. It