“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
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
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
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 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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
