Quotes About Adversity

life is like a tree, when you feeling down the leaves fall off.

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

Just because you fall down doesnt mean your hurt in the process yet mabey you found your lost ear ring

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

speak hard, steal the air.

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be."Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow