Quotes About Adversity

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley…

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

There was absolutely no choice but to cut her adrift and hope her memory was fucked.

It occurred to me one evening, as I sat by myself in Al's patio, that a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. I'd been doing it for ten years and I had a feeling that my reserve was running low.

Don't worry, boys, we'll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever - Saul Alinsky to his staff shortly before his death, June 1972.

But instead of losing quietly, one by one, they have banded together with a mindless kind of loyalty and moved outside the framework, for good or ill. They may not have an answer, but at least they are still on their feet.

At the Tourist Bureau they talk about the cooling trade winds that caress the shores of Puerto Rico every day and night of the year—but Nelson Otto was a man the trade winds never seemed to touch.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

about to quit." "Why?" He laughed. "Everybody quits—you'll quit. Nobody worth a shit can work here.

Life should be made as difficult as possible... So that the victims might develop more character

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you o with what happens to you.

No interesa lo que me pasó, sino las cicatrices que me marcan y distinguen.

jammed inside the bastard for three hours.'). And that bridge, the bridge . . . have to make a pilgrimage to

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea.

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

Still, beauty can flourish in even the most inhospitable terrain.

Tommaso nu voise decât un strat de protecÈ›ie între el È™i responsabilitate, în cazul în care se întâmpla ceva r?u.

Life has taught this boy to string nets beneath his hopes.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.

Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.