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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
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.
wish
He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while. Mark Richt
wish care enough
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. Roald Dahl
wish my-sister candle
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true Sara Shepard
wish next anticipation
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. Samuel Johnson
wish literature beginning-middle-and-end
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wish add walks
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate. Saint Augustine
wish movement afternoon
[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so. William Goldman
wish knows
We cannot wish for that we know not. Voltaire