“The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The ordeals of others . . . prepare us, and later become the compass . . . in our time of ordeal.” — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“Only after a painful ordeal of self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually think about God.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Gil said to Elfine, “I cannot make you an American if that is what you are asking. There is an ordeal all… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the… — Robert Green Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“After my ordeal ended, I gave thought many times to seeing Eleanor and my son Jason, even if from a distance. But… — Michael R. Hicks Copy Share Image
I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I… — Amber Frey Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
“Noel Vanstone [...] composed himself to meet the coming ordeal, with reclining head and grasping hands - in the position familiarly associated… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“Through the whole ordeal, I don't think we ever said to each other: "This isn't fair." We just kept going. We recognized… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“I had never considered myself the adventuresome type, and this entire ordeal had only confirmed that fact. You will not find me… — Travis Mulhauser Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
“Dylan’s birth was a reminder to me of the roles we get to play in our destinies. Jai and I could have… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“By the next afternoon, a shepherd boy had heard his shouts and he’d been hauled up the cliffs and confined to an… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
“Preparation: allows you to prevent . . . the intensity of the ordeal.” — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“It is over now, the ordeal of the Union. The great crimson gash in the nation's history.” — Life Magazine(Special Issue Copy Share Image