Quotes of: Ordeal Keyword

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

The Ordeal of Change

You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled into a fetal position. Regardless of how difficult this new ordeal may be, as with the others, ...

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

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 and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented wi...

John Berryman

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

The ordeals of others . . . prepare us, and later become the compass . . . in our time of ordeal.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so pro...

Wendell Berry

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

Howard Barker

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Zane Grey

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By ...

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Thomas Malthus

The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end.

Raheel Farooq

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

Maurice Saatchi

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.

Susan Smith

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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 made it more of an ordeal.

Kieran Culkin

It is impossible to climb to greater heights while holding on to one's past ordeals.

Edmond Mbiaka

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

Kamisese Mara

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