Quotes & Sayings About Dealing With Bad Times

It's hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it's hard to believe that it didn't give up years ago. — Jonathan Tropper

I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

the despair displayed by young children on loss of their mother is a normal response to frustration of their absolute need for her presence ... children usually manage to survive, it is true, but at the cost of developing a defensive attitude to emotional detachment, and by becoming self-absorbed and self-reliant to an unusual degree. Typically, they are left with lasting doubts about their capacity to elicit care and affection. — Anthony Stevens

In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks. — Chase Twichell

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation ... — William J. Clinton

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation. — Ronnie Milsap

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. — Dag Hammarskjold

There is music in all things, if men had ears. — Lord Byron

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it. — Melissa Bean

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way — Blake Nelson

And since October is coming to an end, what better time to draw Octo-Bear, the bear that is an octopus! — Dan Bergstein

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. — Will Self

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up. — Victoria Schwab

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'. — Dean Martin