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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. — Elizabeth Bowen
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but… — William Saroyan
What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls… — Alexander Herzen
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start. — Zane Grey
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is… — Sonia Johnson
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. — Kamisese Mara
Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death,… — Bill Berry
Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. — William Shakespeare
All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass… — Brigham Young
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
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
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.… — Brigham Young
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

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