Quotes About Adversity

Bugs will happen. They cannot be eliminated, so they must be survived instead.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. —SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Y así como nunca eliminaremos el crimen ni la guerra, tampoco nos liberaremos jamás de la enfermedad.

i swear to God, that was the question. Sometimes, I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel or more likely a demon assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. well, today it got an A plus

My work with men these past twenty years has convinced me that men are either entering a battle, they are in a battle or they are emerging from one.

if the chief drivers are the desire to put a human imprint on another world and our innate needs to see over the next hill and stick it to everybody in high school who thought we'd never amount to anything, then maybe we should put lots of cash into nuclear fusion research.

The story of the Donner Party is a long and complex account of how a group of people from varied backgrounds, stratified in age, wealth, education, and ethnicity, followed their different dreams. Out of necessity, they were made to unite and battle against the unknown—weather, nature, and finally life and death

Look, Kasowitz has known him for twenty-five years. Kasowitz has gotten him out of all kinds of jams. Kasowitz on the campaign—what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them. And now he lasts, what, four weeks? He's in the mumble tank. This is New York's toughest lawyer, broken. Mark Corallo, toughest motherfucker I ever met, just can't do it.

Most especially, he was miserable because of Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.

You'll be fine. It's only a little jail time. I do this all the time.

At points on the day's spectrum of adverse political developments, he could have moments of, almost everyone would admit, irrationality. When that happened, he was alone in his anger and not approachable by anyone. His senior staff largely dealt with these dark hours by agreeing with him, no matter what he said. And if some of them occasionally tried to hedge, Hope Hicks never did. She agreed absolutely with all of it.

Even when it seems that we're surrounded by apostates and enemies, even when it seems we're alone and that everyone around us has defected, we must remember God's message to Elijah. Listen for the gentle whisper of the Spirit. Remember that God always reserves a remnant of faithful followers for himself. Therefore, stand strong in your faithfulness to the Lord, so that you will always be counted among God's faithful remnant.

But when you're extra scared or fatigued or discomfortable, some other bad thing is bound to happen. The past two days confirm this theory: a flat tire, a stickup, and a bad fall. The Morton Salt girl had it right. When it rains, it damn well pours.

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path… is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

Dete je klopka koja se zatvorila, neprijatelj koga ?ete morati i nadalje da izdržavate i koji ?e vas nadživeti.

After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived—on a scale that surprised me.

En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado.

Hay cosas que se pueden hacer, y otras que parecen demasiado difíciles. Con el tiempo, todo parece demasiado difícil; la vida se reduce a eso.

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When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.