Quotes About Adversity

When shit happens, you turn it into fertilizer for your tree of knowledge.

Nelson DeMille

stock market has gone to hell, and people have

When Jack Colby first came aboard The Maine looking for a job, wearing a T-shirt that said: "Wounded Combat Vet—Some Reassembly Required

Nelson DeMille

Brodie smiled. He said, "When shit happens, you turn it into fertilizer for your tree of knowledge.

What do you do, Jack, when any move you make is the wrong move?" "You hope the other guy makes a bad move.

Nelson DeMille

Fate whispered to the warrior, You cannot withstand the coming storm. And the warrior whispered back, I am the storm.

people firing rifles with live ammunition at me. Do you know what I did? I laughed. It was too ludicrous.

Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.

Yes, we say challenged." "Then what happens? They become less than well, then go into an involuntary nonbreathing mode?

I was very depressed in those months, because it's not funny to lose both your feet when you're thirty years old.

John Osborne laughed. "It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war.

defence on the Irene.

Moira nodded. "If what they say is right, we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

T]o divine the direction on a calm sea may prove more difficult than to chart a course through tempestuous waters, where the violence of the elements imparts inspiration through the need for survival."25

President Franklin Roosevelt argued that all that Americans had to fear was 'fear itself'.

Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.