Quotes & Sayings About Overcoming Adversity Bible

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town. — Kathryn Stockett

If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager. — Brian Blessed

A war changes people in a number of ways. It either shortcuts you to your very self; or it triggers such variations that you might as well have been a larva, pupating in dampness, darkness and tightly wrapped puttees. Then, providing you don't take flight from a burst shell, you emerge from your khaki cocoon so changed from what you were that you fear you've gone mad, because people at home treat you as though you were someone else. Someone who, through a bizarre coincidence, had the same name, address and blood ties as you, but who must have died in the war. And you have no choice but to live as an impostor because you can't remember who you were before the war. There's a simple but horrible explanation for this: you were born in the war. You slid, slick, bloody and fully formed, out of a trench.
The Great War was the greatest changer of them all. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest. — Chinua Achebe

When you lack self-esteem, people you encounter can feel it like an invisible barrier separating them from you; conversely, confidence helps people to feel connected to you. — Sam Owen

Just kiss me goodbye,' she whispered.
Only for today, he thought. Not ever. — Rainbow Rowell

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. — Marilyn Monroe

Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character. — Ben Affleck

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O. — James Joyce

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily
choosing love, then choosing it again ... how loving and being in love could be so different. — Sue Monk Kidd

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision. — Idries Shah

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy ... I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better ... if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter. — Virginia Satir

Internists know everything but do nothing; surgeons know nothing but do everything; psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing; and pathologists know everything and do everything, but it is too late. — Vincent DiMaio

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation. — Michael Shermer