Ordeal Quotes

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. — John Berryman
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people,… — Geraldine Brooks
I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. — Paula Abdul
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
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. — Winston Churchill
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what… — Brooks Atkinson
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is… — Benjamin Cheever
There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or… — George S. Patton
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying… — Isabella Beeton
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness… — Colleen McCullough
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and… — Joseph Campbell
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic… — Seneca the Younger
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them. — Mahatma Gandhi
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. — M.F.K. Fisher
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that… — Yasmina Khadra
The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: â€˜the ordeal is part of the commitment.â€™ Itâ€™s one… — Philip Roth
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran
They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians… — Robert E. Lee

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