Quotes About Adversity

Father's death left us very badly off, a fact mother circled round with us for a considerable time – she had her own bearings to get.

The woman without a background has a thin time, at any age,

Sometimes God has His own plan. Sometimes shit happens for a reason.

each loss had been devastating in its own ways and had changed her life.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy. It was a history, and it was hers.

You will wander the dark places under the earth, but you will come back with the sun.

In 2010, I ran for Congress in a Democratic primary against someone who had been there for 18 years. 'The Daily News' endorsed me. I was in 'The New York Times' above the fold. CNBC called this one of the hottest races in the country. On election day, votes for me never went past 19%. I lost.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Being ill-prepared and unequipped to deal with life's inevitable challenges leaves us vulnerable to the dangerous effects of stress.

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.

The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

Golf isn't one of the things I'm best at. You're in a situation where you're vulnerable when you're not a good player. But what I've found is that those are the times that you can build the most lasting relationships.

At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.