Quotes About Adversity

He turned and saw the others come out after him. The not-very-magnificent seven.

If you see something scary you should stand up and walk toward it. Not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

Billy was a hardscrabble country boy, maybe forty years old, lean and furtive, like a fox and a squirrel had a kid, and spent half the time baking it in the sun, and the other half beating it with a stick.

With his life. But Springfield is just one guy.

Tenía que decidir qué haría con esa presión. Tenía que decidir si iba a aplastarme y hundirme o si iba a convertirme en un diamante.

Nevada Barr, author of The Rope "This

If I wanted easy I would have joined the Marines.

Zec back toward the living room. The kettle's whistle died away, like an air raid siren winding down. The house went quiet again. "It's over," Reacher said. "You lost." "It's never over," the Zec replied. Hoarse voice

Something we used to say in the MPs. Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.

They were doped up? Then you were lucky." Reacher shook his head. "You want to fight with me, your best choice would be aspirin.

right. In the form of an invented approach on

arduous, but the worst came first. The road was rough.

Helmsworth said, "Ma'am, nothing was impossible. It was the Cold War. It was a kind of madness. One time they sewed a microphone and a transmitter in a cat's neck, with a thin antenna threaded through inside its spine and up its tail. They were going to train it to wander into the Russian Embassy compound and pick up loose talk. Its first day on the job it was run over by a car. Nothing was impossible and everything went wrong sooner or later." Neagley

I guess she couldn't think of anything to say. But the truth was, I was doing OK at that point. Life was unfolding the same way it always had for everyone. Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it. It had happened that way for a thousand generations. No point in getting all upset about it.

around at his side and flailing back

Don't worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.

half-ton did. He said, "No one is here to work with you, boy. We're here to kick your

10. El camino difícil

12. Nada que perder (Nothing to Lose)

one of his mother's favorite expressions started to echo in his head: When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.

suffer. If you don't do what we

from The Art of War by Sun-tzu: To fail to take the battle to the enemy when your back is to the wall is to perish.

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature. It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said. My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.