Quotes About Ordeal

All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it, and all of them, win or lose, are forever altered in spirit of character by the ordeal.

After all the ordeals suffered by the armada, the discovery of the strait did lay claim to being a miracle.

NOOOO! On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

it's a heck of an ordeal, natural childbirth

At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689)

All trials are trials for one's life.

It may work, Jeeves. It is, at least, worth trying. I shall now leave you, to prepare myself for the ordeal before me with silent meditation.' 'Your tea will be here in a moment, sir.' 'No, Jeeves. This is no time for tea. I must concentrate.

I must not look the hawk in the eye. I must not punish the hawk, though it bates, and beats, and my hand is raw with pecks and my face stings from the blows of its bating wings. Hawks cannot be punished. They would die rather than submit. Patience is my only weapon. Patience. Derived from patior. Meaning to suffer. It is an ordeal. I shall triumph.

In fact, I had never imagined that seven years after my ordeal, the #MeToo movement will start and that I will be talking about it all over again. This is nothing but karma. Dibakar has directed six films, even though I didn't get any films after I went public with my allegations.

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure

The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The ordeal is part of the commitment Esquire Interview 10/10

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is always an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers; the too fast, the timid and oneself.

To speak of the past, to describe her ordeal, she has nothing but words, and words are insufficient to the task; mere words will reduce the sacred to tabloid-newspaper sensationalism. And then she'll have nothing.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.

The bar exam was a nuisance, an ordeal that must be endured, a rite of passage

The entire congregation joined in, most of them doubtless relieved that their long ordeal of sitting still

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.