Quotes About Adversity

La valía de un hombre se mide por la cantidad de enemigos que tiene.

Namorita: Why are you horning in on my action? Orka's an Atlantean criminal. I had the situation perfectly under control. Nova: Yeah, I could tell that from the way you were hitting his fist with your face. -- New Warriors (Vol 2) #0

Boy! There are times when I get the feeling that science develops things that are supposed to be good for us, but that just make trouble." Dr. Tresselt's blue eyes seemed to throw out sparks of amusement. "I know how you feel, Joe," he said. "But my stars, boy, nobody can be alive and never have any trouble! Being alive is just meeting troubles every day and overcoming them. Just to stand up straight against the pull of gravity is a fight, isn't it?

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible moment.

Act as if you are in control, especially when you know it's not true. Your mind will clear and you will be able to see opportunities that are veiled by chaos.

Le géant, qui souffrait, blessé, De mille morts, de mille peines, Eut un sourire triste et beau ; Et, avant de mourir, regardant le roseau, Lui dit : « Je suis encore un chêne. »

Adversity no longer exists within the subject, which has become indifferent to misfortune and to itself. Between the object and the subject of vengeance, no demarcation. A single, dual being, and nothing is separate.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

A foolish friend may cause more woe Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it!

This is some kind of life, isn't it? Something good happening inside something bad.

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak.

My birth was my first misfortune.

My heart has been purified in the crucible of adversity.

A strong man sails by ash breeze!

Estaré a su lado contra mis peores enemigos y contra mis mejores amigos.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

poverty is the cause of many compromises.

Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette

When trouble comes, close ranks

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person's true nature?

There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.