Quotes & Sayings About Defeating Adversity

I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a politician - and we're certainly not a family of politicians, and politics is certainly not our family business - it's been amazing. — Ivanka Trump

I've watched snails climb over
ten foot walls and
vanish. — Charles Bukowski

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. — Robert T. Bakker

when one becomes successful, send th eelevator back down for some one else — Ramsey Lewis

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. — Billy Sheehan

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing. — Billy Graham

I expected something pathological, but I did not expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me. — Philippe Claudel

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. — Bertrand Russell

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it. — Zainab Salbi

I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use. — John Carney