Quotes About Adversity

One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.

Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.

Nie mo?esz pozwoli? by fakt, ?e kto? chce twojej ?mierci, uniemo?liwi? ci wypicie twojej herbaty.

All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night

Scared is what you're feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you're doing.

Learn even from enemies.

A rock on which the highest hopes are shattered. Life thwarts the best intentions and breaks the finest spirits," she said.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire

Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

LACROSSE MATCH

If you face trouble in the right way something always turns up to make things better.

get up again and go on.

Butler snapped his fingers. Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have the Atlantis Trench outside that door and six miles of water above it. If you want to stay alive, you need to stay alert. He turned to Holly. This is ridiculous. I'm pulling the plug. Holly's mouth was a tight line as she shook her head. Navy rules, Butler. You're on my boat, you follow my orders. As I remember, I brought the boat. Yes, thanks for bringing my boat.

And I will not be beaten by that jackass. Jackass? said Foaly, wounded. My favorite uncle is a jackass.

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way You have way too much bad karma.

it's always darkest before the dawn." Artemis looked at her. "What dawn? We're in the Arctic, remember?

Any of these vultures smell weakness, and they'll mess you up faster than sugar in a gas tank.

The great Stephen King once wrote don't sweat the small stuff, which I mulled over for long enough to realise that I don't entirely agree with it. I get what he means: we all have enough major sorrow in our lives without freaking out over the day-today hangnails and such, but sometimes sweating the small stuff helps you make it through the big stuff.

When life gives you a lemon, thought Teddy, slipping his fingers neatly into the weapon's finger holes, you knock the lemon senseless.

Two hundred goblins versus our virtually unarmed three heroes. It was going to be close.

strode briskly through across the tough

The barman sniggered. 'Win? Nobody wins in here, junior.

Ik heb het nog het best doorstaan, zou ze vermoedelijk ook niet bij de eerste de beste gelegenheid zeggen. Ik had alleen een geperforeerde long en een gebroken sleutelbeen. Je had moeten zien hoe de anderen eraan toe waren. - Holly