Quotes of: Ordeal Keyword

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Jacques Derrida

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

Paula Abdul

Preparation: allows you to prevent . . . the intensity of the ordeal.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

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

Never marry who doesn't love you, If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell.

Unknown

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Maria Mitchell

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

Winston Churchill

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

Amber Frey

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

Amanda Lindhout

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, may have affected my priorities.

Bill Berry

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Huston Smith

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

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

Damon Albarn

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

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

Gourmet Rhapsody

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 you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

William Manchester

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Nerilka's Story

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?

Rene Cassin

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 a world.

Steve Buyer

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 a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

Sonia Johnson

She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689)

Tim Willocks