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adversity men open-minded
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. Will Rogers
adversity trends horrible
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? Winston Churchill
adversity issues doubt
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.
adversity years wish
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
adversity drunk down-and
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
adversity office feelings
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
adversity broken darkness
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.
adversity dark night
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey. Rufus Jones
adversity black clouds crystal falls hope hour rain
In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds Persian Proverb
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life. Plato
men
I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be. Jane Fonda
men money
I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.
men heaven have-faith
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. William Wilberforce
men joy soul
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
men sides harvard
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
men progress neighbor
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
men lines straight-lines
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God Antoni Gaudi
men temper ifs
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.