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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
wings might spirit
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades. Sara Sheridan
wings bird tree
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship. Samuel Rutherford
wings poetry darkness
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Wallace Stevens
wings people giving
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites. Warren Beatty
wings giving heaven
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days. William Butler Yeats
wings trying apollo
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vladimir Nabokov
wings bird shack
Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly. William P. Young
wings lord knows
Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere. Jose Saramago
wings people democracy
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics. Kevin Spacey
sorrow delight world
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. William Saroyan
sorrow tears littles
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. Samuel Johnson
sorrow pleasure
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Percy Bysshe Shelley
sorrow mankind possession
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. Louis Sullivan
sorrow may causes
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain. John Henry Newman
sorrow speak
Great sorrows cannot speak. John Donne
sorrow divine exile
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine. Freya Stark
sorrow alas
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sorrow mirth heroic
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. John Cage