Quotes About Adversity

are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on?

everytime you got somethin' good goin', look like somebody got to fuck it up.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Can't you function unless you're losing?

They had it in for us, didn't they? Right from the beginning. Who'd have thought that we were so important?

Defeatism means turning a disaster into a moral victory.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

you can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Consapevole del fatto che non si sarebbe fatta vincere, che nessuna forza oscura, nessun potere avrebbe sconfitto la sua volontà di sopravvivere.

Take that, nattering nabobs of negativity!

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

Everything bad that ever happened to him happened because he couldn't read.

Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit...

Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies and false-hearted men, or mean mamas and friends who did them wrong. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked.

But you said there was no defense. There ain't. Then what do I do? Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on.

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding

Probably best, he thought. If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Still

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.

Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense?

tougher, because she could do and survive things they believed she should neither do nor survive.

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible. The

The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.