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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
order prophecies turned
You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong. Murray Walker
order pitch
He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.
order people courageous
People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person. Ronda Rousey
order mind able
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. Richard Gere
order john-kerry
John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly. Rich Lowry
order people luck
Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it. Roald Amundsen
order luck victory
Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it
order leaving information
The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods. Richard Rodriguez
order safety giving
People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's where their psyche is at. Probably it's something that they've got to go through. Not that there isn't a need for order in the world, but the mystical level seems to be the mature level of religion, and there the question is not order but union - divine union. And so, without some integration of the feminine, usually you never get to the mystical level. Richard Rohr
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
literature classic produce
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
literature doe students
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean
literature projects
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. Norman Ralph Augustine