Quotes About Resilience

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.

With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story.

Life has took me on a journey, and through much of that journey, I didn't feel whole, connected, and grounded. So as a kid, everyone called me Sue. My daddy called me Susie Q. But through this journey, I've sort of risen to a place that I get this level of respect of Ms. Burton.

I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

I was blackballed by the studios when I sued by stepfather.

I'm a real man. I can suffer.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

During natural disasters or emergencies, the most resilient communities - places that suffer the fewest casualties and rebuild more quickly - are not the wealthiest neighborhoods or ones that have spent the most on physical infrastructure, but rather the communities with the strongest social infrastructure.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

I like when characters suffer in stories because that's real life and that's what we all go through.

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.