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
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
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. — Jacques Derrida 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
“I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter” — Mark Twain 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 had the misfortune of meeting Chuck Traynor. He started out as a nice person and then did a complete 180 and… — Linda Lovelace Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what more to say... I did not follow up in the days to come. I did not, I did,… — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You… — David Farr Copy Share Image
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
“I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this… — Daphne du Maurier 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
“The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They march to save… — R. Scott Bakker 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
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
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but… — Peter Higgs 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
“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
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
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
“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
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place. — Amanda Lindhout 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 am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. — Maria Mitchell 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
