Quotes About Adversity

I have risen above this, he thinks: this day, this waning light, these snares. I am the Damascene cat. I have travelled so far to get here, and nothing they do disturbs me now, nor disquiets me, high on my branch.

Cromwell. I am not such a hard man that I don't see how you are left. Do you know what I say? I say I don't know one man in England who would have done what you have done, for a man disgraced and fallen. The king says so. Even him, Chapuys, the Emperor's man, he says, you cannot fault what's-he-called. I say, it's a pity you ever saw Wolsey. It's a pity you don't work for me." "Well," he says, "we all want

She had built a little house for love, and it was flattened by one remark. Now she lives in the wreckage

Há para tudo uma estação: uma estação para passar fome e uma estação para roubar.

He has always done what was needed to survive, and if his judgement of what was necessary was sometimes questionable. . . that is what it is to be young.

Well, you know how it is, some people are born with sour temperaments and they use the misfortunes in their lives as an excuse for them.

She is never put down for long. That's why men like her. There will be other times, other men, others manners.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if only you can see it.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

it's a good thing I'm used to this; the process of shutting things out as they fall apart, the pretence of cool in a dry, hot season, the taste of redemption in a t.v. screen if God had a voice what would it say?

The worse the ill that fate on noble souls Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.

The lake no longer water holds? Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay: If friends are friends when wealth is gone, The lily?s constancy they share.

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you.

I won't give up, I will fight til the bitter end, cause there's no way I will back down after what you did to my friends. They are what made me the person I am today, that's why I'll keep fighting... For my friends!

If you run out of strength today, borrow some from tomorrow

And any painful memories I have today will be nourishment that makes me a stronger person tomorrow! It's the same for everybody! Human beings have that power within themselves! So walk strong! And I'll keep walking strong too!

Les erreurs ne sont pas des entraves à la progression, mais les fondements même de ce que nous sommes

Les erreurs ne sont pas des entraves à la progression, mais les fondements même de ce que nous sommes Mavis

On the way I saw American chewing gum wrappers by the side of the road. In one place a wad of chewing gum was sticking to the leaf of a weed. Here we were holding on for dear life, and these characters were chewing gum while they fought! I was more sad than angry. The chewing gum tinfoil told me just how miserably we had been beaten.

Not long after that the large search party of 1959 arrived from Japan to look for us. "The Americans seem to be starting another one of their fake rescue operations," I said. "What a nuisance!" growled Kozuka. "Let's move somewhere where it's quiet.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

The despair of the world makes Kurono shine even brighter.