Quotes About Adversity

He had the look, it seemed to me, of a man who had awakened one day to find himself clinging to the cattle catcher of an express train: under the circumstances, all one could do was to hang on.

Rachel barely noticed any of it, and not just because she was insulated by the press of bodies on every side fo her. She paid little mind to the deck buckling beneath her like a maddened mule, or even to the stink of feces and urine that the exiles were forced to void where they sat. She was simply numb, her mind having absorbed all the fear it could, like a sponge saturated with water: after a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.

You should look within for your answers. Your life is not determined by the stars. It is determined by your state of mind and the choices you make. Regardless of how the stars are configured, you are in charge of your journey. Make healthy choices, and even if adversity comes, the Tao will show you how to use it for your benefit.

Man's [or woman's] rejection is God's protection.

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

Software experts are—of necessity—comfortable with high-cognitive-friction interaction. They pride themselves on their ability to work in spite of its adversity. Normal humans, who are the new users of these products, lack the expertise to judge whether this cognitive friction is avoidable.

You try kicking some butts here and they'll eat your leg right off.

Sometimes, my friend, we are forced into situations we don't like, that make us uncomfortable, that we think we haven't a chance in hell of coping with. But people cope, Frank. They cope all the time.

You may not believe it, but there are some people out there who don't like me." "Hard to imagine," she murmured.

Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.

Fight against the impossible and win

Being brave doesn't mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do.

There were some horrors you couldn't fight and couldn't change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

Winston Churchill once said to his fellow countrymen, "We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy." Today, thanks to a malign combination of litigation, regulation, and pedagogical fashion, sugar-candy people are everywhere.

despite finishing first in my class at Yale Law School, I was rejected by all 32 of the law firms to which I applied.

IF YOU HURT INSIDE, GET CERTIFIED, AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD... DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!

You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?

That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.

in life there were times when the entirely inappropriate was the only appropriate response. Perhaps

Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive if you observe rules: just hang on by fingernails...and never look down.

Delightfully, however, even phrases of world-ending awesome fury, spoken through a split lip, were quite funny.