Quotes About Challenges

There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?

Had getting rid of his uneven limp, leg braces, and most of the crookedness in his back made that much difference? Or was the difference in the Barrayarans?

Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one's children?

That bitch fate has a cruel sense of humor.

MAMA Well, little boys' hides ain't as tough as Southside roaches. You better get over there behind the bureau. I seen one marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday.

She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing

I remember thinking that once there had been a time when women died of brain fevers caught from the prick of their hat pins, and that still, after all this time, it was hard being a girl, lugging around these bodies that were never right – wounds that needed fixing, heads that needed hats, corrections, corrections.

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

A veteran of the gender wars.

You women today," Mrs. Mallon said. "You expect too much.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

never tell your problems to any1...20% donot care and 80% are glad to have them...

People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.

This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny

There are men who prefer to keep trouble from a woman, but it seems to me that is neither reasonable nor wise. I've always respected the thinking of women, and also their ability to face up to trouble when it comes, and it shouldn't be allowed to come on them unexpected.

This is a story of an adventure in education, pursued not under the best of conditions.

My friend, there is a Hell. It's when a man has a family to support, has his health and is ready to work, and there is no work to do. When he stands with empty hands and sees his children going hungry, his wife without the things to do with. I hope you never have to try it.

It didn't seem fair, but then, a lot of things aren't. We take them as they come.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. Perhaps

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You

do, but he was a man of many experiences, and in the past there had always been a way out. Usually there was, if a man took his time and kept his head.

I don't have anybody available to send up there to help you out. We're kind of up to our elbows in enemy sympathizers right now in Los Angeles.