Quotes About Adversity

You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain became closed off and refused to mature any further. As an adult you were powerless to fight against it. It was simply who you were until the day you died. There was no "therapy" that could cure it. That wall was built and nothing could tear it down.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

We've got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody

Humans were imperfect beings operating in a world over which they had diminishing control.

You know what happened to her predecessors? Of course. It's sort of like the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. Bad things happen to them. Defense Against the Dark Arts? You know, in Harry Potter .

Facing fear is better than running from it, he said. What if it's fear you can't beat? Then it might be better to be dead, he answered.

David Baldacci

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that one could never be the same afterward. It pushed bone, muscle, ligaments, and brains to places they were never intended to go. It was no wonder that so many men who had played the game were now suffering the long-term debilitating effects of entertaining millions and making large sums of money for doing so.

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David Baldacci

Life is hard for everybody, Alex. Anybody who says otherwise has just decided to ignore all the shit that comes with waking up every day and walking out the door.

America was full of opportunity, everybody said. You just had to unlock it. Only they forgot to give out keys for LuAnn's kind. Or maybe they didn't forget at all. Maybe it was intentional.

David Baldacci

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A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

David Baldacci

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I let circumstances beyond my control define me. That's not good. That's worse than lying to yourself. It's like you're lying to your soul.