Quotes & Sayings About Being Strong In Difficult Situations

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook. — Tom Hodgkinson

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. — Christopher Nolan

Fear to face what scares us is often more dangerous than the thing we fear itself. — Sophie Glynn

My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none. — Joseph Hooker

... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it. — Elizabeth Strout

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal. — O. Henry

Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking. — Ernst Pawel

As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience. — Aung San Suu Kyi

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children — Henry Cloud

Mohammed had Sex with a Dead Woman Volume 13 Kanz Al-Ummal (the treasure of deeds) By Ali Bin Husam Ad-Din Al-Mufqi Al-Hindi, Published by Mu'assasa Ar-Risala. Beirut 1989. Pages 609-610 Hadith Numbers 37609-37611 Shirazi — Gary Cass

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had. — Jack Nicholson

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation. — Steve Jobs

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years. — Tyne Daly

When the first shock had worn off and when in spite of everything - in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticising, no matter what happened - they might have uttered some word of protest. — George Orwell

Considered alone, the railways will not pollute the springs of life, but as a whole they are accursed. The whole tendency of our latest centuries, in its scientific and materialistic aspect, is most probably accursed. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky