Best Ordeals Quotes
89 Ordeals quotes by 82 unique authors
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The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there…
— Unknown Author
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The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive
— Susan Smith
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A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,
— Howard Barker
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All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards…
— Eliphas Levi
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Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.
— Bruce Fordyce
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People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more…
— Ted Simon
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Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
— William James
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The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press…
— Kieran Culkin
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Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.
— Maurice Saatchi
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Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.
— Peg Kehret
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Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the…
— Randy Alcorn
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Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts…
— Saint Augustine
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Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
— Thomas Malthus
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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened…
— Steve Buyer
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I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel…
— Belle Boyd
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Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt…
— James Toney
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Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure…
— Ramona Koval
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Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed…
— John Fante
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Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
— Amartya Sen
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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so…
— Antonin Artaud
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The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
— Jarvis Cocker
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Despite all the types of rejection, the most important part is to keep on moving forward and to not give up. If things are getting…
— Mark Edward
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