Quotes of Ordeal - somelinesforyou

“ I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. ”

- Jonas Salk

“ 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 they know. ”

- Brooks Atkinson

“ Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. ”

- Marvin Gaye

“ All right, then, I'll go to hell. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is? ”

- Dizzy Dean

“ Hell no, we won't go! ”

- Unknown

“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”

- Davy Crockett

“ I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

“ Hell is paved with good Samaritans. ”

- William M. Holden

“ I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. ”

- Dr. Jonas Salk

“ Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ”

- Frank Borman

“ I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ 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 to destroy. ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ 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 God. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ 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

“ I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

“ My personal trails have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force… ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.
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