Quotes About Adversity

A dystopian story must not merely be dystopian; it must also be a story. Premise can only get you so far.

Maybe life isn't about the absence of embarrassment, it's about the mastery of embarrassment.

There were many terrible moments, a lifetime of terrible moments really, which is not the same as terrible lifetime.

It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud.

Si vedrà chi ha più pazienza, la guerra o Napoli.

There could be no home for the Tillermans. Home free — Dicey would settle for a place to stay. Stay free.

You were going to fall, you always did, but you had to get up fast and keep going.

She sat with her back to her fear, as to the wind and waves. Fear blew and sprayed at her back but she dared not turn around to face it.

Bullet shrugged. She was right, it would just be another box. It was going to be just another box for him, too, but he'd figured it out. You didn't get out of one box without getting into another, and you didn't get out of one box without getting into another, and you didn't get out without it costing you. For himself, he was just looking for a box that fit him. For her - what he was hoping to do was just loosen a board or two for her. It was up to her what she did about that.

I could never do what you did, they said, to which Fredle responded, You'd be surprised at what you can do, if you need to, if you have to, if you really want to.

People may be the ruin of their own lives, but it's other people that get them started. -Mumma

Work through the constant challenge of tough situations that knock you down. Then get up. If you get knocked down again, get up. If you get knocked down again, get up again. Occasionally you may slow down, but don't stop.

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

It is very much easier to shatter prison-bars than to open undiscovered doors to life.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Here's to the thorn in the flower!

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

One is so much harder if one has a touch of the man in one, don't you think, and more able to bear things.  But I'm afraid I'm all woman.

No, there was something in him that would not give in--neither to the whiskey, nor the woman, nor even the music. Even in the midst of his best music, it sat in the middle of him, this invisible black dog, and growled and waited, never to be cajoled. He knew of its presence--and was a little uneasy. For of course he wanted to let himself go, to feel rosy and loving and all that. But at the very thought, the black dog showed its teeth.

He looked in humiliation, anger, wariness and misery at Connie. "Ma lass!" he said. "The world's goin' to put salt on thy tail." "Not if we don't let it," she said.

Bizler k?sa günü daha büyük günün içine al?p küçük yaÅŸamay? daha büyük yaÅŸaman?n döngüsü içine yerleÅŸtirmedikçe her ÅŸey, her ÅŸey bir y?k?md?r.

WITH SPRING CAME trouble.