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Quotes About Travails

For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.
~ Philip Short
For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions.
~ Philip Short
I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.
~ Conrad Black
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
~ Dante Alighieri
Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
~ Salman Rushdie
There were larger reasons for Walter Whitman's travails. He was a blunt-spoken worker accustomed to honest self-sufficiency in a time when the market was calling for new traits: slickness and self-promotion, with more than a dash of craft. He might love cattle, children, and living under his own roof, but what he needed in the new environment was an eye for the deal.
~ David S. Reynolds
We seldom question the purpose of life when our world is sunny and bright. This question tends to hide itself during pleasant sailing, only rearing its face during the deepest and darkest travails, when the gales of storm weather have fallen.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The film 'Kaliman' is about the various travails a woman undergoes. Since giving birth to a child tops the list and I was pregnant as well, I accepted the role.
~ Shweta Menon
We are closest to Christ when sharing the world's misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
One of the reasons I hate Hollywood so much is that they portray the travails of teen life as so innocuous and fun loving, some kind of idyll before the mean business of adulthood. People forget how much it all hurts back then. Someone pinches you and you feel it in your bones. They don't want to face what a bunch of fragile sadists teenagers were. All these folks who acted all shocked and outraged when those kids in Columbine went off - where the hell did they go to high school?
~ Steve Almond
Being a dancer myself, I can understand the travails of youngsters performing in 'Magadheera.'
~ Sudha Chandran
I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.
~ Chrystia Freeland
this book is less about his travails, what he suffered and lost, than it is about the sources of his strength to survive.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Just a corner, just an instant, just a poem away lay an unimaginably rich world where gods walked alongside the chosen few; and if you ever won your way there, your reward was meaning conferred upon your daily labors and travails by the promise of immortality, by the clarity of secret luminescence.
~ Olga Grushin
Infatti mi sono sempre chiesto come fai, a essere così miracolosamente immune dai travagli dell'intelligenza
~ Tiziano Sclavi
What is striking about this passage is that the present age is typified by suffering, not only on the part of believers, but also on the part of the whole creation that 'travails' until the time of deliverance.
~ Unknown
Trump seemed to have learned a lesson from his travails: his personal brand mattered more than what was on his balance sheet, the projection of strength and success was more significant than any actual fact set underneath.
~ Maggie Haberman
And I knew that she said truly; for indeed to live only to know the pains, the needs, the agonies, and the travails that lie in living, is a hard fate, though it be the fate of millions.
~ Ouida