#ordeal

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#humor #shared-ordeal #friendship

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

#divorce #family #having #hollywood #i

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start. ↗

— Zane Grey

#ordeal #start

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

#depression #early #formed #great #great depression

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

#end #god #had #i #knew

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

— Thomas Malthus

#ordeal #resist #temptation #virtue

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#experienced #fiji #had #military #ordeal

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

#because #breaks #dangerous #dangerous thing #era

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