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adversity men open-minded
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. Will Rogers
adversity gentleman enterprise
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise. Winston Churchill
adversity thinking weakness
When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.
adversity trends horrible
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
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.
miracle rest-of-your-life wells
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life? Walker Percy
miracle lovely gone
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... William Butler Yeats
miracle lasts mysterious
We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods. Robert Green Ingersoll
miracle mystery priests
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
miracle alive mystery
We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say. Wendell Berry
miracle poison germs
It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
miracle life-is moments
Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring. Yoko Ono
miracle
I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God. Deborah Williams
miracle prayed tonight
I prayed for a miracle tonight and I got it.
overcoming melancholy
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy. Robert Burton
overcoming conditioning unworthy
We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy. Wayne Dyer
overcoming states projects
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. Noam Chomsky
overcoming complaining ifs
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. Bernard Baruch
overcoming fame
Fame overcomes everything. Britt Ekland
overcoming impossible contradiction
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. Czeslaw Milosz
overcoming spirituality made
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome. Sri Aurobindo
overcoming dyslexia difficult
I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger. Ahmet Zappa
overcoming-addiction drug our-society
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. Christopher Lasch