Ordeal Quotes

85 Ordeal quotes by 77 unique authors

Bearing ourselves humbly before God ... we await undismayed the impending assault ... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no… — Winston Churchill
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if… — William Manchester
Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's… — Liam Neeson
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if… — Taylor Swift
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that… — Carter G. Woodson
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. — Dean Koontz
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence… — Yann Martel
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that… — Yann Martel
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to… — Scott Westerfeld
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal… — Tom Robbins
I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,… — Sylvia Plath
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity. — C.D. Payne
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world… — Daphne du Maurier
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian… — John Berryman
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) — Joseph Campbell
My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I… — Stephenie Meyer
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are… — Alexandre Dumas-fils
Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy… — Emily Giffin
NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation,… — James Patterson
It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of… — Janet Evanovich
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this,… — Naoki Higashida
The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed… — Germaine Greer
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place. — Amanda Lindhout

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