Quotes About Adversity

For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?

mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the sun.

The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

That was the rock she was battered against.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear

The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if it turned out of no significance, still it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day.

Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston

Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin.

Ah'm uh bitch's baby round lady people.

Le vent revint en triple furie, et une bonne fois pour toutes éteignit les lanternes. Ils restèrent assis en compagnie de tant d'autres comme eux dans d'autres baraquements, leurs yeux s'éreintant contre les murs rudimentaires, leur âme cherchant à savoir si Son intention était de mesurer leur piètre puissance à l'aune de la Sienne. Tous semblaient fixer l'obscur, mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu.

Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from the standin' still and tryin' tuh augh. But you came 'long and made somethin' outa me.

She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people ; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her. But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things .

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

I know some players who have played abroad. It was not always easy for them.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

I spend a lot of time on social media and people ask me if the abuse I get is upsetting, but working in comedy has built up my skin - I'm used to hecklers.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.