#ordeal

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

— John-Talmage Mathis

#inspiration #motivation #ordeals #inspirational

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

#artist #business #extremely #him #kill

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#babe #born #coerce #death #decide

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

— Paula Abdul

#forward #getting #grateful #i #i love

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

— Winston Churchill

#another #great #i #i am #maker

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

#absurd #any #encounter #i #level

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

— Jacques Derrida

#handed #me #nothing #ordeal #these

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

#days #exciting #good #good old days #i

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 the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#basically #culture #down #ebb #every

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

— Susan Smith

#getting #hardest #knowing #need #not knowing