Quotes About Adversity

But desperate people find courage.

Quien correr se propone a caer se dispone.»

The knowledge that someone was trying his best to kill you was overwhelmingly oppressive

A country is mostly the people in it," Maud said. "I don't love England. My parents died a long time ago, and my brother has disowned me. I love Germany. For me, Germany is my wonderful husband, Walter; my misguided son, Erik; my alarmingly capable daughter, Carla; our maid, Ada, and her disabled son; my friend Monika and her family; my journalistic colleagues . . . I'm staying, to fight the Nazis.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .

All the same he was depressed and bitter. Life never dealt him a winning hand.

dismay Preece recovered yet again, rather suddenly, and

Their violence, plus the southward creep of the Sahara Desert, were driving people like Kiah to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in inflatable dinghies.

Es que estaba habituándose al cautiverio? Era demasiado fácil continuar marchando: doloroso para los pies, pero seguro. Debía cortar con aquello de raíz.

It was a sudden reminder that life was unpredictable.

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supply had been cut off and livestock were dying of thirst.

When there is no longer any possibility of running away, you realize how fiercely you can fight.

Me alegra prever los problemas, porque así soy capaz de abordarlos. El verdadero peligro son las sorpresas.

This is a hard place. Only hard things survive here: hard rock, coarse grass, tough sheep, savage birds, sturdy houses and strong men. It is for places like this that the word "bleak" has been invented.

Ya lo ves, todo cuanto amaba me fue arrebatado —dijo con frialdad—. Cuando uno lo ha perdido todo… —Empezaba a desmoronarse, pero se esforzó por continuar—. Cuando uno lo ha perdido todo, ya no le queda nada más que perder.

These Sunday afternoons were the golden moments in a life that was rapidly falling apart. The

Dinamarca ha demostrado que una pérdida parcial de independencia, debida a las exigencias de la guerra, no tiene por qué conducir necesariamente a penalidades y pruebas indebidas.

Se preguntó cuánto tiempo más tardaría en sobreponerse.

Lanzar una bomba desde un avión en movimiento y lograr que impactara contra un barco en movimiento, o dejar caer un torpedo de manera que alcanzara un buque, revestía una dificultad increíble, sobre todo para un piloto al que estaban disparando desde arriba y desde abajo.

Când ai pierdut totul, nu mai ai nimic de pierdut.

O lupt? pierdut?, o jachet? rupt? ?i b?t?i cu rigla la palm?: ?i-ar fi dorit acum asemenea probleme.

Good wood was better than silver, he had liked to say, because it was harder to steal. "We've got nothing left, and no way to make a living," Edgar said. "What on earth are we going to do?