Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. — Peg Kehret 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
“In life there are great ordeals, but as an individual you must know that success is a must.” — Alexander Boyd Copy Share Image
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience. — Bruce Fordyce Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next. — Virgil Copy Share Image
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few… — William James Copy Share Image
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic… — M. F. K. Fisher 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
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious:… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
My run is so weird. That's what I'm most nervous about in this whole ordeal. I'm most nervous about everybody making fun… — Jennifer Lawrence 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
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith — Yasmin Mogahed 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
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
