Quotes About Adversity

Tara made her charming, but the war made her Scarlett O'Hara.

My pet, I've been to the devil and he's a very dull fellow.

All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen

Be a little man, Wade, and stop crying or I will come over there and slap you.

Until you have lost your reputation you never know what a burden it was or what freedom is.

Las pruebas, la adversidad, forman a la gente o la destrozan.

realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.

Don't holler—smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes on'? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Dio mi è testimone che gli yankees non mi abbatteranno. Supererò questo; e quando sarà passato, non soffrirò mai più la fame. Né io né i miei. Dovessi rubare o uccidere...Dio mi è testimone che non soffrirò la fame mai più.

Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding. This was the end of the road, quivering old age, sickness, hungry mouths, helpless hands plucking at her skirts. And at the end of this road, there was nothing—nothing but Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton, nineteen years old, a widow with a little child.

Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched.

The O'Haras were a clannish tribe, clinging to one another in prosperity as well as in adversity, not for any overweening family affection but because they had learned through grim years that to survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world.

He was excited by the war fever and pleased that Scarlett had made so good a match, and who was he to stand in the way of young love when there was a war? Ellen, distracted, finally gave in as other mothers throughout the South were doing. Their leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.

Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened. She had become what Grandma Fontaine had counseled against, a woman who had seen the worst and so had nothing else to fear. Not life nor Mother nor loss of love nor public opinion. Only hunger and her nightmare dream of hunger could make her afraid.

But Gerald has known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.