Quotes About Adversity

But that competitor was Death, and Roger Shumann lost.

Seems like it aint no end to bad luck when once it starts.

Well, Kernel, they kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit, air they?

Well, a man cant keep on going ashore anywhere, let alone Europe, all his life without getting ravaged now and then." "Good God," Monckton said. "I should hope not.

But it seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

Padre decía que un hombre es la suma de sus desgracias. Un día crees que las desgracias han abandonado la partida, pero entonces el tiempo se convierte en tu mayor desgracia, decía padre.

Babam bir insan kendi talihsizliklerinin toplam?d?r derdi. Bir gün gelir talihsizlik de yorulur san?rs?n sen ama zaten senin talihsizliÄŸin zaman?n kendisi olur derdi babam.

Ay, sir," Alec said, who had long since found out that no man has courage but that any man may blunder blindly into valor as one stumbles into an open manhole in the street.

Le diré que todo el mundo puede cometer un error, pero que no todos saben salir de él sin pérdidas; que no todo el mundo puede comerse sus errores: eso es lo que le voy a decir.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief

We will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam.

You were required — this was essential, a matter of survival — to know your limits, both physical and emotional. But how could you know your limits unless you tested them? And if you failed the test? You were also required to stay calm if things went wrong. Panic was the first step, everybody said, to drowning.

Times is always hard for some, the old man observed.

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

Opportunities to do very badly were manifold. You avoided them. The major part in any success.

Pretty soon the crash would come on, and before then she'd have to figure out a way to get back to the hotel, and suddenly it seemed like everything was too complicated, too many things to do, angles to figure, and that was the crash, when you had to start worrying about putting the day side together again.

Shit," she said, small hand gesturing to encompass their situation. "Lots of it. Now. Hitting many fans. Large ones.

Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?

Of course we're frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened.

It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.

I only wanted to keep up a fire!

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.

He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest toward the open beach.

Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.