Adversity Defines Character Quotes & Sayings

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've got a system." He reached under a stack on the left corner of his desk, pulled out a file.
"It's like the magician's tablecloth trick," she commented. "Nicely done."
"Want to see me pull a rabbit out of my hat? — Nora Roberts

We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said. — Yann Martel

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records. — Sandra Bernhard

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women. — Robert A. Heinlein

Learning lines is my biggest challenge. — Tim Meadows

His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone. — Aline Ohanesian

It is, as I say, easy enough to describe Holden's style of narration; but more difficult to explain how it holds our attention and gives us pleasure for the length of a whole novel. For, make no mistake, it's the style that makes the book interesting. The story it tells is episodic, inconclusive and largely made up of trivial events. Yet the language is, by normal literary criteria, very impoverished. Salinger, the invisible ventriloquist who speaks to us through Holden, must say everything he has to say about life and death and ultimate values within the limitations of a seventeen-year-old New Yorker's argot, eschewing poetic metaphors, periodic cadences, fine writing of any kind. — David Lodge