Quotes About Adversity

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

His mouth tightened up and he says, 'I thought this was the young man who only a week past was shouting that he wasn't afraid to die. Surely a man who's not afraid to die isn't afraid of a few lashes?' and he gives Jamie a poke in the belly wi' the handle of the whip. "Jamie met Randall's eye straight on then, and said, 'No, but I'm afraid I'll freeze stiff before ye're done talking.

Nadie se muere por eso. Ni tu, ni yo»

I'd known that, consciously-and yet I had done it anyway, gone right on with my plans, pursuing my routines, as though life were still settled and predictable, as though nothing whatever might threaten the tenor of my days, As though acting might make it true.

He still didn't know why the frog hadn't killed him.

He wiped the sweat from his face on his sleeve, squared his shoulders, and strode back into the fray. All there was to do was his duty.

I have lived through a fucking world war," I said, my voice low and venomous. "I have lost a child. I have lost two husbands. I have starved with an army, been beaten and wounded, been patronized, betrayed, imprisoned, and attacked. And I have fucking survived!" My voice was rising, but I was helpless to stop it. "And now should I be shattered because some wretched, pathetic excuses for men stuck their nasty little appendages between my legs and wiggled them?!

I was in the heart of chaos, and no power of mind or body was of use against it.

They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance." But

Roger lay in the dust of the road, bruised, filthy, and starving, with a woman trembling and weeping against his chest, now and then giving him a small thump with her fist. He had never felt happier in his life.

What if, this time, you fall?

Facing something down doesn't mean you aren't afraid of it," I said dryly. "Usually quite the opposite.

But the years between now and then had been hard ones—and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance.

He said, 'If you're sizable, half the men ye meet will fear ye, and the other half will want to try ye. Knock one down,' he said, 'and the rest will let ye be. But learn to do it fast and clean, or you'll be fightin' all your life.

Then ye live with it, laddie, he said softly. That's all.

risings in two days were taking their toll.

My niece's son, really," he confided. "Father shot down over the Channel, and mother killed in the Blitz, though, so I've taken him.

There's worse has happened to others, lass," he said quietly. Then he let go and the spell was broken.

the good man's only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him

It wasn't a very

I thought I had not been out for long; I showed no symptoms of concussion or other ill effects from the blow, save a sore patch on the base of my skull. My captor, a man of few words, had responded to my questions, demands and acerbic remarks alike with the all-purpose Scottish noise which can best be rendered phonetically as Mmmmphm. Had I been in any doubt as to him nationality, that sound alone would have been sufficient to remove it.

D'accordo, sibilai tra i denti, mentre flettevo con cautela la mano destra ancora formicolante. Cos'è che si deve fare, quando si colpisce un osso e si perde il coltello? Esiste una procedura fissa in questi casi? Oh, aye, rispose Rupert, sghignazzando. Tiri fuori la pistola con la sinistra e lo fai secco.

Over the years, I'd seen a lot of sweet, amiable, biddable patients, who succumbed within hours to their ailments. The angry, irascible, difficult sons of bitches (of either sex) almost always survived.

shoved those pusillanimous images firmly back into the