Quotes About Challenges

STERCUS FIT. Latin for "Shit Happens.

Some people never want to be part of the solution. All they want to do is bitch and whine and create complications for other people. You

He was born crazy...He's been losing ground ever since.

Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. —Vincent van Gogh

Housing costs are also squeezing middle- and lower-income families. For the poorest third of households, housing expenses have increased more than 50 percent since the mid-1990s and for the middle third, about 25 percent.

Indeed, the instability of families' incomes has risen faster than the inequality of families' incomes.

From the moment that the first plow blade bit into the crust, the homesteaders began to destroy the foundations of their new life, and in a very few years the crust was gone--used up, scattered, blown away by the dry summer winds.

Having parented successfully in the past may rank as a satisfying accomplishment retrospectively; but the bulk of research finds that being a parent, while it is happening, does not increase life satisfaction and may reduce it.

Those who look to parenthood as a solution to their discontent will typically find that the rewards, though real, are some years in the future.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

For each of us there is a Jordan we will not cross. Once

as Katharine Hepburn majestically said to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Nature, Mr Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above.

Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Let's have the baddish one first,' George said. 'I prefer my misery to come at me in stages, so I can acclimatize on the way.

They were hot, itchy, and hard to see out of, plus the wool covered our mouths and made it difficult to speak. Aside from that, it was a joy to wear them.

I'm sorry, Miraculous One, it's difficult to think of new titles for you when you ask short questions.

Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.

We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality.