Ordeal Quotes
85 quotes by 78 authors
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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
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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
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I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
— Paula Abdul
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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
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
— Winston Churchill
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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
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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
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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
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Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...
— Susan Sontag
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one…
— Philip Roth
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
Who Wrote These Ordeal Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 85 Ordeal Quotes, led by these top contributors: