Quotes About Adversity

Doing what's right isn't always supported by those around you. Even the most well-meaning people can stumble into darkness.

She was treading on thin ice—with cleats.

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

So this is how it feels to be a man tempted—face to face—by the tempter. So

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

Like all engineers, she secretly loves hearing disaster stories … as long as she doesn't have the starring role.

Let the inevitable happen, and we'll see what we can learn from it.

Bash is the disease you die with, but don't die of.

Murphy does exist, so you'll always have unplanned work, but it must be handled efficiently.

I had seen of Gus and the astronauts indicated that they had the "right stuff.

World-Honored One, You must know that in the muddied age Evil monks who do not understand The Buddha's skillful means— How the Dharma is taught In accord with What is appropriate— Will frown upon and abuse us. Repeatedly we will be driven out And exiled far from stupas and monasteries. Remembering the Buddha's orders, We will endure all such evils.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still loose. That is not a weakness. That is life.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

MARGIE: You want to know if she'll survive? She'll survive! Living with someone who doesn't want to be there would do more harm.

We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

Belgium always seems to get invaded, fall prey to meteorites or get infested by alien fungus or something . . .

one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

It goes a bit like this," Irene said, as they walked towards the stairs. "The first step is, I'll kill myself before I let him do that to me again. The second step is to say, Wait, it'd be much more practical to kill him rather than kill myself. And there you have it. A sensible plan based on logical choices.

I plan for the worst," Silver said. "That way, at least I'm dressed for the occasion.

When the opponent completely controls the chessboard and things can't get worse for you, sometimes the answer is to make it worse for everyone . . .